Peter Muhlenberg
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (October 1, 1746 – October 1, 1807) was an American clergyman and military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. A member of Pennsylvania's prominent Muhlenberg family political dynasty, he became a respected figure in the newly independent United States as a Lutheran minister and member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate.[1]
Peter Muhlenberg
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Constituency established
Constituency abolished
October 1, 1807 (aged 61)
Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Muhlenberg family
Conrad Weiser (maternal grandfather)
Minister, Politician, Soldier
1776–1783
Early life and education[edit]
Muhlenberg was born October 1, 1746, in Trappe in the Province of Pennsylvania to Anna Maria Weiser, the daughter of Pennsylvania Dutch pioneer and diplomat Conrad Weiser, and Henry Muhlenberg a German Lutheran pastor.
In 1763, along with his brothers, Frederick Augustus and Gotthilf Henry Ernst, he was sent to Halle, where they were educated in Latin at the Francke Foundations.[2] In 1767, he left school to begin his career as a sales assistant in Lübeck, but returned the same year to Pennsylvania.
On November 6, 1770, he married Anna Barbara "Hannah" Meyer, the daughter of a successful potter.[14] Together they had six children, including:[15]
On his 61st birthday, Muhlenberg died in Gray's Ferry, Pennsylvania, on October 1, 1807, and is buried at the Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe, Pennsylvania.