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Reuben Herbert Mueller (1897-1982), American Evangelical United Brethren Church minister, general church officer, and bishop, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Army in World War I. He married Magdalene Stauffacher on December 26, 1919. They had one daughter, Margaret Magdalene.
After studying at the Evangelical Theological Seminary and North Central College in Gainesville, Illinois, Mueller was licensed to preach in 1916 by the Evangelical Association.
He was given his first pastorate in 1921, ordained deacon in 1922, and elder in 1924. He served pastorates in Minnesota and Indiana before becoming a district superintendent in 1937.
In 1943, Mueller was chosen executive secretary of the Board of Christian Education of the Evangelical Church, and later of the Evangelical United Brethren Church,. In 1954, he was elected bishop. At the sixth General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in December 1963, Mueller was elected president, and served one three-year term. In the United Methodist Church (1968), he was assigned to the Indiana Area. He retired in 1972.