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US & WorldPoliticsSenate historian Donald Ritchie to retire

Senate historian Donald Ritchie to retire

The United States Senate Historical Office records and preserves historical information about the United States Senate. Only two men have been the head of the Senate Historical Office since the creation of the governmental body in 1975: Richard A. Baker (1975 – 2009) and Donald Ritchie (2009 to present).

According to the New York Times 2009 article on the retirement of Mr. Baker, “Congress established the office in the wake of the Watergate investigation, and began to emphasize the importance of record keeping after President Richard M. Nixon’s efforts to destroy official documents.”

Former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) and Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) created the Senate Historical Office at the urging of historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

“He said Congress is paying a lot of attention to the papers of the president and doing nothing about its own historical records,” Ritchie said.

According to the Hill, Senate historian Donald Ritchie will retire in May after nearly 40 years in the Senate Historical Office.

Ritchie, who joined the office as an associate historian in 1976, said he will use his time in retirement to write and research.

Similar to his predecessor, Ritchie said. “Historians never retire, they just have more time to research.”

Betty Koed, the current associate historian, is a likely candidate to become the next Senate historian.

LPH
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