Henry Wynkoop
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Henry Wynkoop (March 2, 1737 - March 25, 1816) was a member of the Continental Congress (from 1779) and later a United States Representative for the state of Pennsylvania during the First United States Congress, 1789 to 1791.
Prior to his term as a representative, he served as a Justice on the Court of Common Pleas and the Orphan's court in Kingston, Pennsylvania from 1780 to 1789. After his term in Congress, he was appointed as an Associate Judge in Bucks County, as which he served until his death in that county on March 25, 1816; he was interred in the graveyard of the Low Dutch Reformed Church, Richboro, Pennsylvania.
[edit] Further reading
- Beatty, Joseph M., Jr. "The Letters of Judge Henry Wynkoop, Representative From Pennsylvania to the First Congress of the United States." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 38 (January 1914): 39-64, 183-205.
[edit] External links
- Henry Wynkoop at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Henry Wynkoop at Find A Grave
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