{{Short description|American politician (1831–1907)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Frederick Halterman | image = Frederick Halterman.png | caption = | state = Pennsylvania | district = 3rd | term_start = March 4, 1895 | term_end = March 3, 1897 | preceded = William McAleer | succeeded = William McAleer | birth_date = {{birth date|1831|10|22}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1907|03|22|1831|10|22}} | birth_place = Bremen, German Confederation | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | resting_place = Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | party = Republican }} '''Frederick Halterman''' (October 22, 1831{{spnd}}March 22, 1907) was a German-American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1895 to 1897.
==Biography== Halterman was born on October 22, 1831, to John and Meta Halterman in Vegesack on the Weser, part of the old Hanse town of Bremen in the German Confederation. He immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia in September 1849. He worked in a grocery store for four years then opened his own store. He operated a successful merchant business in the Northern Liberties neighborhood<ref>{{cite book |last1=Egge |first1=Marion F. |title=Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean |date=2000 |publisher=Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania |location=Philadelphia |isbn=1-887099-13-1 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbWPG_sOk8gC&pg=PA127 |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref> for thirty-eight years and retired in 1891. He served as a School Director from 1872 to 1881. He was elected a member of the select council in 1880 for a term of three years.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williamson |first1=Leland M. |last2=Foley |first2=Richard A. |last3=Colclazer |first3=Henry H. |last4=Megargee |first4=Louis N. |last5=Mowbray |first5=Jay H. |last6=Antisdel |first6=Will R. |title=Prominent and Progressive Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 |date=1898 |publisher=The Record Publishing Company |location=Philadelphia |pages=226–228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19gNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA226 |access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref>
He was nominated as the Republican nominee for Congress and was supported by the reformer Rudolph Blankenburg.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Silcox |first1=Harry C. |title=Philadelphia Politics from the Bottom Up: The Life of Irishman William McMullin 1824-1901 |date=1989 |publisher=The Balch Institute Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=0-944190-01-4 |page=135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2aWWvvUC-G8C&pg=PA135 |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref> He was elected in 1894 as a Republican to the 54th Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897). While his support came mainly from German immigrants, he appealed to other voters through his support of a protective tariffs against imported goods. His victory was part of a Republican resurgence in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Juliani |first1=Richard M. |title=Philadelphia's Germans: From Colonial Settlers to Enemy Aliens |date=2021 |publisher=Lexington Books |location=Lanham - Boulder - New York - London |isbn=9781793651792 |pages=112–113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-dFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA112 |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896. He was elected president of the twelfth sectional school board of Philadelphia, PA in 1898 and served until his death in Philadelphia. He was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Halterman, Frederick 1831-1907 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000093 |website=www.bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref>
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