Example sentences for: muhlenberg

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  • There is a further bit of embroidery to the myth: it is often claimed that F. A. Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House and member of a prominent assimilationist German family, stepped down to cast the deciding vote damning German in the U.S. forever to minority-language status (Muhlenberg's detractors go so far as to assert that his own German was pretty incompetent).

  • But while Muhlenberg's voting record in the Third Congress did not seem to annoy his German American constituents, they did react quite strongly when, as Speaker of the Fourth Congress, he stepped down and cast the deciding negative vote against the Jay Treaty.


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