Abraham L. Brick

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Abraham Lincoln Brick (May 27, 1860 - April 7, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.

Born on his father's farm, near South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, Brick attended the common schools and was graduated from the South Bend High School. He later attended Cornell University and Yale University, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1883. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. He served as prosecuting attorney for the counties of St. Joseph and La Porte in 1886 and delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896.

Brick was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 7, 1908.

He was interred in Riverview Cemetery, South Bend, Indiana.

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• Abraham L. Brick at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress