Henry Augustus Muhlenberg

Henry Augustus Muhlenberg ( born July 21, 1823 in Reading, Pennsylvania, † January 9, 1854 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. In 1853 and 1854 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Augustus Muhlenberg was a member of the influential Pennsylvania Muhlenberg - Hiester family. His father Henry Muhlenberg (1782-1844) was a congressman and U.S. ambassador in the Empire of Austria; his grandfather Joseph Hiester (1752-1832) was governor of Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg enjoyed a university education and then studied until 1841 at Dickinson College in Carlisle. After a subsequent law studies and his 1844 was admitted to a lawyer, he began to work in Reading in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1849 and 1852 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Muhlenberg was elected the eighth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Thaddeus Stevens on March 4, 1853. This mandate he was able to exercise until his death on January 9, 1854. He died of tuberculosis disease.