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Charles Miner (February 1, 1780 – October 26, 1865) was an anti-slavery advocate and politician who served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1807 to 1808 and the United States House of Representatives from 1825 to 1829. He was a member of the Federalist Party. During his terms in Congress, he proposed to end the slave trade in the District of Columbia and gradually abolish slavery across the city.

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  • تشارلز مينر هو سياسي أمريكي، ولد في 1 فبراير 1780 في نورويتش في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي في 26 أكتوبر 1865 في ويلكس بار في الولايات المتحدة. انتخب عضو مجلس نواب بنسيلفانيا ‏ وانتخب عضو مجلس النواب الأمريكي ‏. (ar)
  • Charles Miner (February 1, 1780 – October 26, 1865) was an anti-slavery advocate and politician who served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1807 to 1808 and the United States House of Representatives from 1825 to 1829. He was a member of the Federalist Party. During his terms in Congress, he proposed to end the slave trade in the District of Columbia and gradually abolish slavery across the city. Charles Miner was born in Norwich, Connecticut son of Seth Miner and Anna Charleton. He attended the public schools of Norwich and moved with his brother Asher Miner in 1797 to his father's lands in the Wyoming Valley, and to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1802. He became the publisher of the Luzerne County Federalist. Miner was elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and served in 1807 and 1808. He moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1816. He was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1828. He edited and published the Village Record from 1829 to 1832. He returned to Wilkes-Barre in 1834 and became involved in the mining of the large fields of anthracite coal in the Wyoming Valley. He died in Wilkes-Barre in 1865. Interment in in Wilkes-Barre. Miner's essay "Who'll turn Grindstone?", published in the Luzerne Sentinel in 1810, coined the phrase "an ax to grind" as a metaphor for having ulterior personal motives. "When I see a man holding a fat office, sounding 'the horn on the borders,' to call the people to support the man, on whom he depends for his office, Well thinks I, no wonder the man is zealous in his cause, he evidently has a axe to grind." (en)
  • Charles Miner (* 1. Februar 1780 in Norwich, Connecticut; † 26. Oktober 1865 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1825 und 1829 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Pennsylvania im US-Repräsentantenhaus. (de)
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  • تشارلز مينر هو سياسي أمريكي، ولد في 1 فبراير 1780 في نورويتش في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي في 26 أكتوبر 1865 في ويلكس بار في الولايات المتحدة. انتخب عضو مجلس نواب بنسيلفانيا ‏ وانتخب عضو مجلس النواب الأمريكي ‏. (ar)
  • Charles Miner (* 1. Februar 1780 in Norwich, Connecticut; † 26. Oktober 1865 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1825 und 1829 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Pennsylvania im US-Repräsentantenhaus. (de)
  • Charles Miner (February 1, 1780 – October 26, 1865) was an anti-slavery advocate and politician who served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1807 to 1808 and the United States House of Representatives from 1825 to 1829. He was a member of the Federalist Party. During his terms in Congress, he proposed to end the slave trade in the District of Columbia and gradually abolish slavery across the city. (en)
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  • تشارلز مينر (ar)
  • Charles Miner (de)
  • Charles Miner (en)
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