What is Bill Ritter?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Bill Ritter |image = Bill Ritter official photo.jpg |order = 41st [[Governor of Colorado]] |lieutenant = [[Barbara O'Brien (politician)|Barbara O’Brien]] |term_start = January 9, 2007 |term_end = January 11, 2011 |predecessor = [[Bill Owens (Colorado politician)|Bill Owens]] |successor = [[John Hickenlooper]] |order1 = [[Denver District Attorney's Office|District Attorney of Denver]] |appointed1 = [[Roy Romer]] |term_start1 = June 1993 |term_end1 = January 11, 2005 |predecessor1 = Norm Early |successor1 = [[Mitchell R. Morrissey]] |birth_name = August William Ritter Jr. |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|9|6}} |birth_place = [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = {{marriage|[[Jeannie Ritter]]|1983}} |children = 4 |education = [[Colorado State University|Colorado State University, Fort Collins]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado, Boulder]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]]) |signature = Bill Ritter signature.svg }} '''August William Ritter Jr.''' (born September 6, 1956) is an American politician and lawyer. He was the [[List of Governors of Colorado|41st]] [[Governor of Colorado]] from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. He was the [[district attorney]] for [[Denver]]. Ritter was the first Colorado-born person to be elected as Governor of Colorado since 1975. Ritter did not run for a second term in [[2010 Colorado gubernatorial election|2010]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14129079|title=Sources: Ritter expected to withdraw from governor's race|last=Bartels|first=Lynn|date=January 5, 2010|newspaper=[[The Denver Post]] |access-date=6 January 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100109175549/http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14129079| archive-date= 9 January 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> ==R