Jacob Fry, Jr.

Jacob Fry, Jr. ( born June 10, 1802 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, † November 28, 1866 ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jacob Fry attended the common schools and taught himself then as a teacher in his home town of Trappe. Later, he was successfully engaged in trade. Between 1830 and 1833 he was bailiff of the courts in Montgomery County. He joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1834, Fry was in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joel Keith Mann on March 4, 1835. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1839 two legislative sessions. In 1838 he gave up another candidacy.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Fry again worked in retail. From 1853 to 1854 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Between 1857 and 1860 he was auditor of the state government of Pennsylvania ( Auditor General ). He died on 28 November 1866 in his birthplace Trappe.