William Shadrack Shallenberger

William Shadrack Shallenberger (* November 24, 1839 in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, † April 15, 1914 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Shallenberger attended the common schools and the Mount Pleasant Academy. In 1862 he graduated from the University Lewisburg, today Bucknell University. Between 1862 and 1864 he served during the civil war in the army of the Union. He then worked in Rochester in the trade. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In the years 1872 and 1874 he was chairman of the district in Beaver County.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Shallenberger was elected in the 24th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of John Winfield Wallace on March 4, 1877. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 three legislative periods. Since 1881 he was chairman of the Committee on public properties.

In 1897 was appointed to the Federal Ministry of Postal William Shallenberger by the new U.S. President William McKinley as Second Assistant Postmaster General. This post he held until 1907. He died on 15 April 1914 in the German capital Washington and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.