Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902) was a U. S. Representative from Ohio. Riddle moved with his parents to Newbury, in the Western Reserve of Ohio, in 1817. He completed preparatory studies, and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and began practice in Geauga County, serving as prosecuting attorney of that county 1840- 1846. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives 1848-1850, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1856. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (1861- 1863). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862. After his term in Congress, Riddle served as consul at Matanzas, Cuba, in 1863 and 1864. He then returned to Washington, D.C., and again engaged in the practice of law. His works include: Suffrage Conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment (1871), Bart Ridgeley: A Story of Northern Ohio (1873), The Portrait (1874) and Alice Brand (1875).