The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
Albert C. Ritchie
 Dies Very Suddenly
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recent months. Sen. Huey P. Long was assassinated and Senator Thom D. Schall, T., Minn., was killed by an automobile.
 Beaten by Roosevelt
 He was a candidate for the demo- cratic nomination in 1892, but lost before the landslide that nominated President Roosevelt. He supported the president during the campaign, but soon turned against the New Deal, assailing its huge expenditures and its alleged interference with private business.
 During his speech last night, he appeared in his usual good health and good spirits. The elevator opera tor in his apartment building said he joked with him when he rode up to his rooms. But an hour after ward he telephoned his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth w. Smith, that he was i'll. By the time she arrived, he was semi- conscious. Before the doc- tors she summoned could arrive, he was dead.
 Speaking Tour Planned
 Ritchie had been about to ern- bark upon a national speaking tour, hoping to force his party back to it's platform of 1882. His friends said he had no intention of following Alfred E. Smith in taking a walk" from the forthcoming Philadelphia con- vention, but had hoped to influ- ence his party's course while main taining his party regularity.
 He served as governor of Mary land from 1920 to 1885, the longest tenure of any man in that office, having been defeated in 1884 by Gov. Harry B. Nice, republican. He was prominent in public life for ai- most 35 years, beginning his career as assistant city solicitor in Balti- more in 1903. From 1910 to 1913 he was assistant counsel for the Maryland public service commission and in 1916 he was elected attorney general, he held that office until he became governor in 1920.
 Was Divorced In 1f6
 In 1912 he married Elizabeth Ba- ker, but she divorced him in 1916. He never remarried.
 Through all his career, Ritchie was known as proponent of state rights and bitter enemy of national prohibition. It was as a wet that he won national prominence and dur ing all of the period of prohibition his was the most persistent of the voices raised against it.
 Albert c. Ritchie, southern gen. tleman by lineage, whose winning personality and fearless expression of his convictions kept him for four terms in Maryland's gubernatorial chair, was born in Richmond, Va, August %, 1876. His father was Su- preme Court Judge Albert Ritchie, of Baltimore and his mother was Elizabeth Caskie Cabell, of the his- toric Virginia familyl of that name.
 After attending private schools in Baltimore, he entered Johns Hopkins University, where he was bAdduabCQ HI AoOu. n ACW JCdA Q later he received the degree of LIB. at the University of Mary land and he began his law prac- tice with the firm of Steele, Sem mes, Carey & Bond. He became member of the firm in 1900.
 Formed Law Partnership
 From 1903 to 1910 he was As- sistant City Solicitor. During this time he left the old law firm and formed one of his own in partner ship with Stuart s. Janney, for mer classmate. Tn addition to the duties of his office and law firm, he found time at night to teach law at the University of Maryland.
 While he was little disposed at the time to enter politics, he was appointed assistant general coun- sel to the Public Service Commis-