Henry Frick

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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.

[edit] Sources

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

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