John Gloninger was born in
Lebanon Township in the
Province of Pennsylvania. He served as a
subaltern officer in the Associaters during the
Revolutionary War and later was in command of a battalion of militia. Upon the organization of
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, he was appointed a lieutenant by the supreme executive council on May 6, 1785. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1790. He resigned and served in the
Pennsylvania State Senate from 1790 until 1792. He was appointed by
Governor Thomas Mifflin as justice of the peace of Dauphin County on September 8, 1790. He was commissioned as associate judge on August 17, 1791, and upon the formation of
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, he was commissioned on September 11, 1813, as one of the associate judges for that county. Gloninger was elected as a
Federalist to the
Thirteenth Congress and until his resignation on August 2, 1813. He was again appointed associate judge of Lebanon County and died in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Interment in First Reformed Churchyard. ==Sources==