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| Affiliation | Conservative |
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| Name | Robert Ridgway |
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Amherst, Virginia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 21, 1823
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| Died | October 16, 1870
(47 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | RIDGWAY, Robert, a Representative from Virginia; born in Lynchburg, Amherst County, Va., April 21, 1823; attended Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va.; was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Liberty (now Bedford), Va.; edited the Bedford Sentinel; moved to Richmond, Va., in 1853; edited the Richmond Whig until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he retired to Amherst; elected as a Whig to the Fortieth Congress, but as reconstruction measures were not completed was not permitted to qualify; elected as a Conservative to the Forty-first Congress in July 1869; took his seat January 27, 1870, and served until his death at Cool Well, Amherst County, Va., October 16, 1870; interment in the family cemetery at Amherst, Va.
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