Christian Lower

Christian Lower ( born January 7, 1740 in Tulpehocken, Berks County, Pennsylvania, † December 19, 1806 ) was an American politician. In the years 1805 and 1806 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Christian Lower grew up during the British colonial period. He attended the common schools and worked as a blacksmith. He later became the owner of an iron foundry. He took time attend various functions at the War of Independence and struck at the same time a political career. Between 1777 and 1779 he was District in Berks County. From 1783 to 1796 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Between 1797 and 1804 he was a member of the State Senate.

Lower joined the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1804 he was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Hiester on March 4, 1805. This mandate he was able to exercise until his death on 19 December 1806.