Richard J. Haldeman
(May 19, 1831 — October 1, 1886) Richard Jacobs Haldeman was an editor, academic, and politician. Haldeman was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1831. He graduated from Yale College in 1851, after which he attended Heidelberg and Berlin Universities. He served as an attache of legation at Paris and also at St. Petersburg and Vienna. After living outside the United States, Haldeman returned to Pennsylvania and worked as editor of a newspaper in Harrisburg. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 1869 to March 1873.
[Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000027]
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Pennsylvania Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875
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