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.

Whithill was elected as a Republican 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.

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Crist, Robert Grant. Robert Whitehill and the Struggle for Civil Rights: A Paper Presented Before the Hamilton Library and Historical Association of Cumberland County, Carlisle, Pennsylvania., on March 20, 1958. Lemoyne, Pennsylvania.: Lemoyne Trust Co., 1958.

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Preceded by James McLene	Member, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, representing Cumberland County 28 December 1779—20 November 1781	Succeeded by John Buyers
Preceded by John Andre Hanna and David Bard	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district 1805 - 1813 alongside David Bard	Succeeded by Hugh Glasgow
Preceded by George Smith	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district 1813 alongside William Crawford	Succeeded by William Crawford and John Rea