Francis Jacob Harper

Francis Jacob Harper ( born March 5, 1800 Frankford, Pennsylvania, † March 18, 1837 ) was an American politician. In 1837 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Harper was born in 1800 in the then independent town of Frankford, now part of Philadelphia. He joined the Democratic Party and became in 1832 deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Between 1834 and 1835, he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1836 Harper was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Michael Woolston Ash on March 4, 1837. He died two weeks later, on March 18 of the same year, long before the inaugural meeting of the newly elected Congress.