Henry L. Cake

Henry Lutz Cake ( born October 6, 1827 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, † August 26, 1899 ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1871 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Cake attended both public and private schools and then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. Until the outbreak of the Civil War, he published the newspaper Pottsville Mining Record. Between 1861 and 1863 he served during the war as an officer in the army of the Union. He rose to the colonel of a volunteer unit from Pennsylvania. Since 1863 he lived in Tamaqua, where he worked in the mining and shipping of anthracite coal. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1866 Cake was in the tenth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Myer Strouse on March 4, 1867. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1871 two legislative sessions. Until 1869, the work of the Congress was still burdened by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. Since 1869, Cake was chairman of the Committee on Accounts. In 1870 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Cake took his previous activities in mining again. He died on 26 August 1899 in his home town of Northumberland.