Henry Frick | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 13th district |
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In office March 4, 1843 – March 1, 1844 |
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Preceded by | Amos Gustine |
Succeeded by | James Pollock |
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
In office 1828-1831 |
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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.
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.