Harmar Denny

Harmar Denny ( born May 13, 1794 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † January 29, 1852 ) was an American politician. From 1829 to 1837 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1813 Harmar Denny graduated from the Dickinson College in Carlisle. After a subsequent law degree in 1816 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began working in Pittsburgh in this profession. Politically, he joined the Anti- Masonic Party. Between 1824 and 1829 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1828 the later U.S. Senator William Wilkins was selected for the 16th legislative district in the Pennsylvania Congress originally. However, this occurred even back before his inauguration. The overdue election won Harmar Denny, who then on December 15, 1829 took up his new mandate. After three re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1837 Congress. Since the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President. In 1836 Denny gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Pittsburgh. In 1837 he took part in a constitutional convention of his state as a delegate. Around this time he became a member of the Whig party. In 1840 he was one of the electors who formally chose William Henry Harrison as President. Later he went into the railway business. He was involved in the founding of two railway companies. In 1851 he became president of the Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad. A year earlier, he declined the nomination for the congressional elections. Harmar Denny was also curator of the Western University of Pennsylvania and director of the Western Theological Seminary. He died on January 29, 1852 in Pittsburgh, where he was also buried. His great-grandson Harmar D. Denny (1886-1966) was also a congressman.