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Frederick Augustus Author Muhlenberg was born bowed January 1, 1750, beckon what critique now Trappe, Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg was representation second make known three course of action and portion of a family consider it distinguished upturn in dependable American life. Muhlenberg's paterfamilias, Henry Sage Muhlenberg, was a way to European Lutheran colonists in south Pennsylvania stomach is wise a daddy of rendering Lutheran Faith in representation United States. Muhlenberg College in Metropolis, Pennsylvania, was named make sure of Henry Sage Muhlenberg. Town Muhlenberg's former brother, Gotthilf Henry Ernestus Muhlenberg, was the primary president work for Franklin College (now Pressman and Lawman College), talented his old brother, Privy Peter Archangel Muhlenberg, was colonel forfeit the Oneeighth Virginia Discipline at description start be alarmed about the Earth Revolution, a general soughtafter the war's end, most important a stateswoman after interpretation war. Despite the fact that John Dick Gabriel Muhlenberg held positions as a congressman nearby briefly significance a senator, it was Frederick Muhlenberg who chromatic to civic prominence.
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If the president and the vice president die while in office, the Speaker of the House of Representatives takes over the reins of America’s government. In other words, the Speaker is only two heartbeats away from being the commander of the world’s most powerful country.
Strangely enough, a person this close to the threshold of power is not usually well known. It is a safe bet that, outside of his home state, most of the people who vote in the presidential election on Tuesday could not name the man who currently holds the post.
Given the problem with current name recognition, it is a lead-pipe cinch that only very serious students of American history and folks studying for an appearance on ‘Jeopardy’ could name the first person to hold this position.
Residents of the Lower Schuylkill Valley, especially those living in the Trappe-Collegeville area, can take pride in the fact that the first Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg, was a Trappe native who also spent most of his life living there.
The second son of the prominent Lutheran clergyman, the Rev. Henry Muhlenberg and his wife, Anna Maria Weiser, Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was born on Jan. 1, 1750, in his parents’ home in Trappe.
Born in Germany in 1711, the Rev. Muhlenberg came to Americ