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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaJohn Peter Gabriel MUHLENBERG
(1746-1807)
Senate Years of Service:
1801-1801Party: Democratic
RepublicanMUHLENBERG, John Peter
Gabriel, (father of Francis Swaine Muhlenberg, brother of
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, uncle of Henry Augustus
Philip Muhlenberg, and great-great-grandfather of Frederick
Augustus Muhlenberg), a Representative and a Senator from
Pennsylvania; born in Trappe, Pa., October 1, 1746; pursued
classical studies; attended the Academy of Philadelphia (later the
University of Pennsylvania); studied in the University of Halle,
Germany, 1763-1766; apprenticed to a grocer, absconded, and served
in a German regiment of dragoons; returned to Philadelphia in 1766;
studied theology and was ordained in 1768; pastor of Lutheran
churches in New Germantown and Bedminster, N.J.; moved to
Woodstock, Va.; on a visit to England in 1772 was ordained a priest
in the Anglican Church; member, Virginia house of burgesses 1774;
chairman of the committee of safety for Dunmore County, Va.; during
the Revolutionary War, raised and commanded the Eighth Virginia
(German) Regiment; commissioned brigadier general of the
Continental Army in 1777, and brevetted major general in 1783;
returned to Pennsylvania and settled in Montgomery County; elected
a member of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania in 1784
and served as vice president 1785-1788; elected to the First
Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791), the Third Congress (March
4, 1793-March 3, 1795), and the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March
3, 1801); presidential elector in 1796; elected to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1801, until his resignation
on June 30, 1801; appointed by President Thomas Jefferson
supervisor of revenue for Pennsylvania in 1801 and collector of
customs at Philadelphia in 1802, in which latter capacity he served
until his death at Gray’s Ferry, Montgomery County, Pa.,
October 1, 1807; interment in the Augustus Lutheran Church
Cemetery, Trappe, Pa.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Hocker, E.W. The
Fighting Parson of the American Revolution: A Biography of General
Peter Muhlenberg. Philadelphia: published by author, 1936;
Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus. Life of Major General Peter
Muhlenberg. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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