Henry Frick (politician)

Henry Frick ( born March 17, 1795 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, † March 1, 1844 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. In 1843 and 1844 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Frick attended the common schools and graduated in Philadelphia after an apprenticeship in the printing trade. He also took part in the British -American War of 1812. Since 1816 he lived in Milton, where he founded the newspaper Miltonian, for which he was on for 20 years. At the same time he suggested a also a political career. Between 1828 and 1831 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Later he became a member of the founded in the 1830s Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1842 Frick was elected in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Amos Gustine on March 3, 1843. This mandate in Congress, he was able to exercise until his death on March 1, 1844. This period was characterized by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.