Richard Jacobs Haldeman

Richard Jacobs Haldeman was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania for two terms from 1869 to 1873.

Life and career

Education

Richard J. Haldeman was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Yale College in 1851. While at Yale, he was a member of the Skull and Bones Society. He also attended Heidelberg and Berlin Universities.

Political career

He served as United States attaché of the legation at Paris in 1853 and later occupied similar positions at St. Petersburg and Vienna.
He returned to Harrisburg and purchased the Daily and Weekly Patriot and Union and was its editor until 1860. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore, Maryland, and Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860.

Congress

Haldeman was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1872. He retired from active pursuits, and died in Harrisburg in 1886. Interment in Harrisburg Cemetery.