| 词条 | Robert Whitehill (Pennsylvania) |
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Robert Whitehill (July 21, 1738 – April 8, 1813) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Robert Whitehill (brother of John Whitehill, uncle of James Whitehill, and great-great-grandfather of John Crain Kunkel) was born in Pequea, Pennsylvania. He settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention in July 1776 that approved the Declaration of Independence. He was a member of the council of safety in 1777, and a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1790. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1797 to 1800. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1801 to 1804, and was speaker of the senate in 1804 during the impeachment trials of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Whitehill was elected to the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Hanna. He was reelected to the Tenth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served until his death at Lauther Manor, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was interred in Silver Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Hampden Township, near Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Notable writings include the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, which he helped draft, and the Minority Dissent[1] to the ratification of the US Constitution by Pennsylvania. This dissent included a number of proposed amendments to the US Constitution and is thought to have been used by James Madison when he drafted the United States Bill of Rights.[2] See also
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1. ^Library of Congress: The Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention, of the state of Pennsylvania, to their constituents. {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box | before=James McLene| title= Member, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, representing Cumberland County | years= December 28, 1779 – November 20, 1781 | after=John Buyers}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{USRepSuccessionBox2. ^[https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniafede00hist/pennsylvaniafede00hist_djvu.txt Pennsylvania and The Federal Constitution 1787-1788 by James Wilson] | state=Pennsylvania | district=4 | before=John Andre Hanna and David Bard | after=Hugh Glasgow | years= 1805–1813 alongside David Bard }}{{USRepSuccessionBox | state=Pennsylvania | district=5 | before=George Smith | after=William Crawford and John Rea | years= 1813 alongside William Crawford }}{{s-end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitehill, Robert}}{{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub}} 11 : 1738 births|1813 deaths|American Presbyterians|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania|Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives|Pennsylvania state senators|Politicians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania|People from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania Democratic-Republicans|People of colonial Pennsylvania|Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives |
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