He served as prosecuting attorney for Lebanon County in 1848 and 1849 . He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1850 and 1851 , and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 7th district from 1854 to 1857 . He was a delegate to the 1856 Republican National Convention . Killinger was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses . He served as a chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department during the Thirty-seventh Congress . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 . He served as assessor of internal revenue from 1864 to 1866
1856 Republican National Convention
1856 Republican National Convention
John Weinland Killinger