Preceded by Amos Gustine Succeeded by James Pollock | Political party Whig Name Henry Frick | |
Born March 17, 1795
Northumberland, Pennsylvania ( 1795-03-17 ) Died March 1, 1844(1844-03-01) (aged 48)
Washington, D.C. | ||
Henry Frick (March 17, 1795 – March 1, 1844) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Henry Frick was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. He attended the 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.
References
Henry Frick (politician) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA