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Gustav Adolphus Schneebeli (May 23, 1853 – February 6, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.

Gustav A. Schneebeli was born in Neusalz, Germany (now in Poland). He immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended the Moravian Parochial School. They later moved to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and entered upon a mercantile career. He founded the knit-goods industry of the Nazareth Waist Co. In 1888 he established a lace manufacturing company, of which he became sole owner.

Schneebeli was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906. He continued in the lace manufacturing business until his death in Nazareth in 1923. Interment in Moravian Cemetery.

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• Gustav A. Schneebeli at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Joseph H. Shull

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district 1905 - 1907

Succeeded by J. Davis Brodhead