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Henry Frick (politician)

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
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office
1828-1831
Personal details
Born (1795-03-17)March 17, 1795
Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Died March 1, 1844(1844-03-01) (aged 48)
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.

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.



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