Richard Jacobs Haldeman (May 19, 1831 – October 1, 1886) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania for two terms from 1869 to 1873.

He served as United States attaché of the legation at Paris in 1853 and later occupied similar positions at St. Petersburg and Vienna.

He returned to Harrisburg and purchased the Daily and Weekly Patriot and Union and was its editor until 1860.

He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore, Maryland, and Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860.

Haldeman was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses.