The Life of ROBERT M RIDDLE

Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1853 to 1854.

Robert M. Riddle was born in 1811, the son of Judge James Riddle. Robert Riddle was involved in the banking business in Philadelphia. He was the editor of the Commercial Journal, and served as Postmaster of Pittsburgh in 1841.

Mayor Riddle was most instrumental in helping found the Republican Party. During Mayor Riddle's term, Pittsburgh's people suffered through the city's worst cholera epidemic.

He died of inflammatory rheumatism in 1858.

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