Biography

08/21/1766 - 09/17/1829


Dauphin County (1809-1811), Dauphin and Lebanon Counties (1813-1815), Lebanon County (1827-1829)

SHINDEL, John Peter, II, a Representative from Dauphin and Lebanon Counties; born, August 21, 1766 in Lebanon, Lancaster County (now, Lebanon County), Pa.; fifer, 2nd Company, Second Battalion, Lancaster County Militia (Revolutionary War); justice of the peace; elected, commissioner, Dauphin County (1805-1806); elected as a Democratic Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1809-1810, 1810-1811, 1813-1814 and 1814-1815 terms; elected, chief burgess, Lebanon (1823-1826); reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1827-1828 and 1828-1829 terms; died while in office, September 17, 1829 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Salem Lutheran Church Graveyard, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; removed to Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. 


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