Francis Jacob Harper

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Francis Jacob Harper (March 5, 1800 – March 18, 1837) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Francis J. Harper was born in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1832, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1834 and 1835.

Harper was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress, but died in Frankford in 1837, before the assembling of Congress. Interment in Frankford Cemetery. Reinterment in December 1848 in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

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• Francis Jacob Harper at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Michael W. Ash

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district 1837

Succeeded by Charles Naylor