Frederick Muhlenberg

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Frederick Muhlenberg

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (born January 1, 1750 in Trappe , Province of Pennsylvania , † June 4, 1801 in Lancaster , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician of German descent. He was the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1789 .

Born in what is now Montgomery County , Muhlenberg, whose father Henry Melchior Muhlenberg is considered the patriarch of the Lutheran church system in the USA, was sent to the Francke Foundations (then Glauchasche Institutions) in Halle for schooling. Like his brothers Peter (1746–1807) and Heinrich (1753–1815), he attended the Latin school ( Latina ) from 1763 to 1769 . He began studying Protestant theology at the University of Halle in 1769 and returned to his American homeland in September 1770. He worked in several parishes in Pennsylvania as a pastor and in 1779 he was a member of the Continental Congress and later a member of the American House of Representatives, of which he was president of the ratification committee in 1787 for the United States Constitution . There he was elected in 1793 as the first speaker and thus President of the House of Representatives in the first congress . At that time he was still a member of the pro-administration faction that later became the Federalist Party . He was also elected to this office in the third Congress; meanwhile he had converted to the Democratic Republicans . He was a signatory to the Bill of Rights in 1789 .

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SURNAME Muhlenberg, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad (full name); Mühlenberg, Friedrich August Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician; first Speaker of the House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Bustard , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1801
Place of death Lancaster , Pennsylvania