Background
Gloninger, John was born on September 19, 1758 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician member of the Pennsylvania State Senate member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Gloninger, John was born on September 19, 1758 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
He served as a subaltern officer in the Associaters during the Revolutionary War and later was in command of a battalion of militia. Upon the organization of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, he was appointed a lieutenant by the supreme executive council on May 6, 1785. He resigned and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1790 until 1792.
He was appointed by Governor Thomas Mifflin as justice of the peace of Dauphin County on September 8, 1790. He was commissioned as associate judge on August 17, 1791, and upon the formation of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, he was commissioned on September 11, 1813, as one of the associate judges for that county. Gloninger was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress and until his resignation on August 2, 1813.
He was again appointed associate judge of Lebanon County and died in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Interment in First Reformed Churchyard.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1790.