Jacob Fry Jr. Explained

Jacob Fry Jr.
Office1:Pennsylvania Auditor General
Term Start1:1857
Term End1:1860
Governor1:James Pollock
William F. Packer
Preceded1:George R. Espy
Succeeded1:John N. Purviance
State2:Pennsylvania
District2:5th
Term Start2:March 4, 1835
Term End2:March 3, 1839
Preceded2:Joel Keith Mann
Succeeded2:Joseph Fornance
Office3:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term3:1853-1854
Birth Date:10 June 1802
Birth Place:Trappe, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Trappe, Pennsylvania
Party:Jacksonian
Democratic

Jacob Fry Jr. (June 10, 1802 – November 28, 1866) was a Jacksonian and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Formatve years

Jacob Fry Jr. was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania on June 10, 1802. He taught school in Trappe, and served as the clerk of courts of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, from 1830 to 1833.

Career

Fry was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838.

He subsequently engaged in the mercantile business in Trappe. In 1853 and 1854, he was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He then served as Pennsylvania Auditor General from 1857 to 1860 before resuming his mercantile work.

Death and interment

Fry died in Trappe in 1866, and was interred in the Augustus Lutheran Church Cemetery.

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