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Thomas Ritchie was born in Tappahannock, Essex County, Va. on 5 November 1778. He unsuccessfully studied law and medicine, then read politics and economics. After his health failed, he set up a bookstore in Richmond. Under sponsorship of Spencer Roane and Thomas Jefferson, Ritchie began publishing the Richmond Enquirer in 1804 which he continued for forty-one years.From 1845 until 1851, he edited the Washington Union, an organ of the Polk administration. He died 3 July 1854.
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