Reuben Post (January 17, 1792 – September 24, 1858[1]) was a Presbyterian clergyman who served two separate terms as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (1824 and 1831) and also served as Chaplain of the Senate of the United States (1819).
[3] He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1814, then studied for the ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary.
[8] Reuben Post married Harriet Moffitt, a granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee, on January 7, 1823.
In 1858, Post took a vacation to his native Vermont; while there a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Charleston.
Post returned at once to care for members of his congregation, and soon fell victim himself and died in the 23rd year of his pastorate there.