Henry Frick (politician)
Henry Frick | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 13th district | |
In office March 4, 1843 – March 1, 1844 | |
Preceded by | Amos Gustine |
Succeeded by | James Pollock |
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
In office 1828-1831 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Northumberland, Pennsylvania | March 17, 1795
Died | March 1, 1844 Washington, D.C. | (aged 48)
Political party | Whig |
Henry Frick (March 17, 1795 – March 1, 1844) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
[edit]Henry Frick was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. He attended public schools and apprenticed to a printer in Philadelphia. He served in the War of 1812. He settled in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1816, and established the Miltonian, a political journal, with which he was connected for over twenty years. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1828 to 1831.
Frick was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress and served until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1844. Interment in the Congressional Cemetery.
See also
[edit]Sources
[edit]- United States Congress. "Henry Frick (id: F000383)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The Political Graveyard
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