Haldeman, Richard Jacobs

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Richard Jacobs Haldeman
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Education
    Yale
    Other
    Other Education
    Heidelberg and Berlin Universities
    Occupation
    Politician
    Diplomat
    Journalist
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Pierce Administration (1853-57)
    Diplomat
    US House of Representatives

    Richard Haldeman (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    HALDEMAN, Richard Jacobs, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Harrisburg, Pa., May 19, 1831; pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Yale College in 1851; attended Heidelberg and Berlin Universities; United States attaché of the legation at Paris in 1853 and later occupied similar positions at St. Petersburg and Vienna; returned to Harrisburg and purchased the Daily and Weekly Patriot and Union and was its editor until 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore and Charleston in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872; retired from active pursuits; died in Harrisburg, Pa., October 1, 1886; interment in Harrisburg Cemetery.
    "Haldeman, Richard Jacobs," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000027.
    How to Cite This Page: "Haldeman, Richard Jacobs," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/12005.