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Speaker of the House Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
by Joseph Wright (Courtesy of the National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
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House of Representatives chose Pennsylvania's Frederick A. Muhlenberg as its
speaker. Muhlenberg's reputation as the impartial presiding officer of both
the Pennsylvania Assembly and the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention made him
an ideal choice for the job. His selection probably also came about because
of the desire to give this leadership position to a Pennsylvanian to balance
the president from Virginia and vice president from Massachusetts.
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