About Henry Frick
Lived 1795 – 1844 (aged 48). Henry Frick was an American politician.
Henry Frick (March 17, 1795 – March 1, 1844) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography Henry Frick was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. He attended 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.
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American politician (1795-1844)
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Henry Frick was born on 17 March 1795 in Northumberland.
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Henry Frick died on 1 March 1844 in Washington, D.C..
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