Daniel Hiester (1774March 8, 1834) was an American political leader from Pennsylvania. Daniel was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty. He was the son of John Hiester and nephew of U.S. Rep. Daniel Hiester (17471804) and Gabriel Hiester.

Biography

Daniel Hiester was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Chester County in the Province of Pennsylvania in 1774. He married Catherine Titlow. Hiester was elected prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Chester County in 1800 and continued to serve until 1809. Hiester was elected to the Eleventh Congress in 1808. He served in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1809, to March 3, 1811. After his congressional career, Hiester helped establish the Bank of Chester County, was burgess of West Chester, Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817, and was appointed register of wills and recorder of deeds on February 28, 1821. He died in Hagerstown, Maryland on March 8, 1834. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

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The Political Graveyard
1774 births 1834 deaths Hiester family Politicians from Chester County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Dutch people Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania prothonotaries 19th-century American legislators Burials at the Congressional Cemetery People of colonial Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub