Background
Ritter, John was born on February 6, 1779 in Exeter, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative politician
Ritter, John was born on February 6, 1779 in Exeter, Pennsylvania, United States.
He received a limited schooling and apprenticed as a printer. Ritter was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1846.
He served as editor and publisher of the Adler, a German newspaper, at Reading, Pennsylvania.
He died in Reading in 1851. Interment in the Charles Evans Cemetery.
He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1836.