NewsMarch 23, 1996
CAPE DOCTOR FILES FOR EMERSONS'S SEAT
A Cape Girardeau doctor will challenge U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson in the Republican primary for the 8th District congressional seat. Dr. C. John Ritter, an internist at Cape Girardeau Physician Associates, filed Friday in Jefferson City. He is the second Republican to challenge Emerson. The other is Bollinger County resident Richard Kline, who filed earlier this year...A Cape Girardeau doctor will challenge U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson in the Republican primary for the 8th District congressional seat.
Dr. C. John Ritter, an internist at Cape Girardeau Physician Associates, filed Friday in Jefferson City.
He is the second Republican to challenge Emerson. The other is Bollinger County resident Richard Kline, who filed earlier this year.
Emerson, who is battling lung cancer, has filed by mail. He is in the middle of six weeks of radiation treatment that have restricted his travel.
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Ritter serves on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. The County Commission appointed Ritter and two others to the board last April to fill unexpired terms. His term ends next month.
Ritter previously served 13 years on the school board, beginning in 1971. He served two terms as president.
He graduated from Jackson High School, Southeast Missouri State University and the University of Missouri-Medical School.
He is married, with five children.
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