Henry Frick | |
State1: | Pennsylvania |
District1: | 13th |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1843 |
Term End1: | March 1, 1844 |
Preceded1: | Amos Gustine |
Succeeded1: | James Pollock |
Office2: | Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
Term2: | 1828-1831 |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1795 |
Birth Place: | Northumberland, Pennsylvania |
Death Place: | Washington, D.C. |
Party: | Whig |
Henry Frick (March 17, 1795 – March 1, 1844) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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.