Biography

05/20/1855 - 03/19/1935

RITER, Frank M., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, May 20, 1855 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, Friends’ School; graduated, law, University of Pennsylvania, 1878; lawyer (1878-1935); elected, common council, Philadelphia (1883); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1889 term; reelected to serve 3 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1896); chair, Registration Commission of Philadelphia (1925-1926); died, March 19, 1935, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.