C Chapter III. JOHN ANDREW SHULZE. Governor of the Commonwealth. 1823-1829. 'LERGYMEN ARE MUCH IN THE MINORITY among the Governors of Pennsylvania, John Andrew Schulze being the only representative of the Church in the number. The son of a German Lutheran clergyman, he was born in Berks county in 1775. Receiving a thorough classical and theological education, he was admitted to membership in the German Lutheran Synod in 1796 and ordained to the ministry. After six years pastoral work in Berks county, he was obliged to give up the ministry on account of a rheumatic affection of long standing, and engaged in business in Myerstown. In 1806 to 1808 he served as a member of the House of Representatives, declining a re-election for a fourth term. He also declined the appointment of Surveyor General of the State, but accepted a combination of offices such as the sparse population and few official duties rendered possible in his day, viz.: "Register, Recorder, Prothonotary, Clerk of the Orphans' Court, and Clerk in the Sessions Court of Lebanon County." He resigned these positions in 1821 and was elected representative for Lebanon county in the Legislature. In ( 489 ) 1822 he was elected State Senator for Dauphin and Lebanon counties, but before the year had passed he was elected Governor by the Democratic party, while, in 1827 he was re-elected by a majority unparalleled in the history of the State, receiving seventy-two thousand votes, while his opponent received only one thousand. Himself an example of the most brilliant schooling, Governor Shulze, naturally valued highly the blessings conferred by education, and he spared neither precept nor example to impress upon the people the value of this unspeakable boon of the present age. The Monroe Doctrine was annunciated in 1823 and the Legislature of Pennsylvania having adopted resolutions cordially endorsing it, the action was communicated to the Presi dent by the Governor with his own unqualified ap proval. During his administration enormous advances in the canal system were initiated and completed, loans to the extent of six million dollars being negotiated by the state for the prosecution of the work, and in 1827 a railroad, nine miles in length, was opened near Mauch Chunk. Upon the expiration of his second term the Governor retired from public life and amused himself with rural pursuits. In 1846 he took up his residence in Lancaster, where he remained until his death, November 18, 1852. His services as Governor extended from December 16, 1823, to December 15, 1829. Proclamation Announcing the Election of John Andrew Shulze as Governor, and Continuing all Appointments under the Executive for the Term of Four Months. Pennsylvania s. s. [Signed] J. Andrew Shulze. N THE NAME AND BY THE AU IN thority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. By J. ANDREW SHULZE, Governor of the said Commonwealth. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have duly certified that the said Speaker of the Senate did, on the eleventh day of December instant, in the chamber of the House of Representatives, in the State Capitol at Harrisburg, open and publish the returns of the late election of a Governor of the said Commonwealth, in the presence of the Members of both Houses of the Legislature, conformably to the constitution of the said Commonwealth; and that upon counting the votes by a teller appointed on the part of each house, it appeared that J. Andrew Shulze had a majority of votes; Whereupon the said J. Andrew Shulze was declared to have been duly elected Governor of the said Commonwealth; and having first taken the oaths of office, was accordingly, on the sixteenth day of December, proclaimed Governor thereof. Now, in pursuance of the power and trust to the Governor of this Commonwealth by the constitution and |