Harmar Denny

Harmar Denny (May 13, 1794 – January 29, 1852) was an American businessman and Anti-Masonic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.^[1]

Harmar Denny was born in Pittsburgh the son of Ebenezer Denny and Nancy Wilkins.^[2] Graduating from Dickinson College in Carlisle in 1813, he then practiced law in Pittsburgh. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1824 to 1829.

Denny was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Wilkins. He was reelected to the Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth Congresses and served from December 15, 1829, to March 3, 1837. After his term, he resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh, and became a delegate to the Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention in 1837. He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840. As commissioner under act of incorporation of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, April 13, 1846, he incorporated the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1848. He declined the nomination to be a candidate for Congress in 1850. He served as president of the Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad Company in 1851 and 1852. He was a trustee of the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh, and director of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.^[2]

Harmar Denny was the great-grandfather of Congressman Harmar D. Denny, Jr. of Pennsylvania.

He is buried at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood.^[3]

References

1. ^ See Chronicles of Dickinson College: http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/d/ed_dennyH.htm
2. ^ ^{a b} Centennial Volume of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, PA., 1784-1884, page 201
3. ^ See: http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/d/ed_dennyH.htm

Sources

• Harmar Denny at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

External links

• Harmar Denny at Find a Grave