Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg

Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg ( born September 25, 1887 in Reading, Pennsylvania, † January 19, 1980 ) was an American politician. Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Muhlenberg was born into a well-known political family in Pennsylvania. Some of his ancestors had held high office in the early years of American history at the State and Federal level, including, for example, Frederick Muhlenberg. He attended the common schools and afterwards until 1908, the Gettysburg College. Then he studied until 1912 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. During the First World War, he served 1917-1919 as a captain in the U.S. Army. For his military services he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart, the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre. Since 1920 he worked in Reading as an architect. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1934 and 1938 he sat in the council of Reading; in the years 1935 and 1936 he was chairman of the Republican district in Berks County. Between 1940 and 1946, including during the Second World War, he served as lieutenant colonel and later colonel for the Army Corps of Engineers in use. For this he was honored with the Order of the Legion of Merit.

In the congressional elections of 1946, Muhlenberg was in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Daniel K. High on 3 January 1947. Since he has not been confirmed in 1948, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1949. This was marked by the events of the early Cold War.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Muhlenberg again worked as an architect. Between 1952 and 1963 he was chairman of the State Art Commission of Pennsylvania ( State Art Commission); 1958 to 1972 he was a member of the county Planning Commission. He died on January 19, 1980 in Reading.