Frederick Mulenberg ( born Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg , originally Mühlenberg , German Mühlenberg ; January 1, 1750 - June 4, 1801 ) - American priest and politician.
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He was the son of Heinrich Mühlenberg ; Like his two brothers, he received religious Lutheran education in Germany. Upon returning, he became assistant father in Philadelphia in 1770; He was a pastor of the German Lutheran Church in New York from 1773 to 1776, in 1777-1779 he was an assistant to his father in New Hanover. In 1779-1780, he was a Member of the Continental Congress, in 1780-1783 - a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly (then consisting of only one house), and in 1780-1790 - a member of the State Constitutional Assembly. He was president of the Pennsylvania Convention, which ratified the federal constitution, and was a member of the House of Representatives in 1789-1797, holding the post of speaker in 1789-1791 and 1793-1795. On April 29, 1796, as chairman of the Committee of the Whole , his vote became decisive in accepting the Jay Treaty .
There is also an urban legend of the decisive voice of Mulenberg , which says that, allegedly only because of the opposition of Mulenberg, German did not become the state language in the USA.
- This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .
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- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000