Henry Frick (politician) explained

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.

Biography

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.

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