Frederick Muhlenberg

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg ( born January 1, 1750 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, † June 4, 1801 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician of German descent. It was 1789, the first Speaker of the House. As a Member of the House of Representatives he was the first German Americans in the U.S. Congress.

Born in what is now Montgomery County Muhlenberg, whose father Henry Melchior Muhlenberg is considered the founder of the Lutheran churches in the United States, was sent in 1763 to Halle in the Francke Foundations (then Glauchasche institutions) for education. He attended, as did his brothers John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1746-1807) and God Help Heinrich Ernst (1753-1815) from 1763 to 1769 the Latin School (Latina ). He began in 1769 a study of Protestant theology at the University of Halle and returned in September 1770 returned to his American home. He appeared in several municipalities in Pennsylvania as a pastor and moved in 1779 as a deputy in the first Continental Congress and later in the U.S. House of Representatives, the President of the Ratification Committee, he was in 1787 for the United States Constitution. There he was in 1793 elected the first Speaker and thus to the President of the House of Representatives in the first Congress. At this time he was still a member of the Pro- Administration Group, which later became the Federalist Party was formed. In the third congress, he was elected to that office; meanwhile he had gone over to the Democratic Republicans. He was in 1789 one of the signers of the Bill of Rights.