Henry Frick (politician)

This article is about the Pennsylvania Congressman. For the industrialist, see Henry Clay Frick.

Henry Frick
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 13th district
In office March 4, 1843 – March 1, 1844
Preceded by	Amos Gustine
Succeeded by	James Pollock
Personal details
Born	(1795-03-17)March 17, 1795 Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Died	Washington, D.C.
Political 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 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.

Sources

• Henry Frick at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Amos Gustine	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district 1843–1844	Succeeded by James Pollock