Henry Augustus Muhlenberg III (October 27, 1848 – May 14, 1906) was a prominent citizen of Reading, Pennsylvania and an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Congress with the Republican nomination in 1892.
[1][citation needed] He studied law in the office of George F. Baer and was admitted to the bar of Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1875.
[citation needed] He was a director in the Framers' National Bank, the Reading Trust Company, and the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad.
[1] He was also a trustee of the Charles Evans Cemetery Company, a vestryman of Trinity Lutheran Church,[1] and a member of the Valley Forge Park Commission, to which position he was appointed by two Governors of Pennsylvania.
In 1892 Muhlenberg was nominated for Congress on the Republican ticket, but lost in the general election.