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Robert Whitehill, a legislator and official, lived here in Lowther Manor on land conveyed by the Penns in 1771. At the state's 1787 convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution, he led the Anti-federalist minority and presented amendments later embodied in the Bill of Rights. A drafter of the 1776 state constitution, he served terms with both the legislature and executive council and was in Congress from 1805 to 1813.
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Camp Hill, Pennsylvania · United States
