Daniel Hiester (1774–1834)

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For the other Daniel Hiester, who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1795–1796) and U.S. Representative from Maryland (1801–1804), see Daniel Hiester
Daniel Hiester
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811
Preceded by See below
Succeeded by See below
Personal details
Born 1774
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Died 1834 (aged 59/60)
Hagerstown, Maryland
Political party Democratic-Republican

Daniel Hiester (1774–1834) was an American political leader from Pennsylvania. Daniel was a member of the Hiester Family political dynasty. He was the son of John Hiester and nephew of U.S. Rep. Daniel Hiester (1747–1804) and Gabriel Hiester.

Biography

Daniel Hiester was born in East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1774. He married Catherine Titlow.

Hiester was elected prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Chester County in 1800 and continued to serve until 1809.

Hiester was elected to the Eleventh Congress in 1808. He served in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1811.

After his congressional career, Hiester helped establish the Bank of Chester County, was burgess of West Chester, Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817, and was appointed register of wills and recorder of deeds on February 28, 1821.

He died in Hagerstown, Maryland on March 8, 1834. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Sources

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district

1809–1811
alongside: Robert Jenkins and Matthias Richards
Succeeded by
Roger Davis
John M. Hyneman
and
Joseph Lefever


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