Joseph Fry, Jr.

Joseph Fry, Jr. (* August 4, 1781 in Upper Saucon, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, † August 15 1860 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Fry attended the common schools and worked in the trade. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In the years 1816 and 1817, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1817 to 1821 he was a member of the State Senate. He was also a colonel in the state militia. In the 1820s 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 1826 Fry was in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jacob cancer on March 4, 1827. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1831 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President 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.

1830 renounced Joseph Fry for another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities in the commercial again. In the years 1837 and 1838 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of his home state. He died on August 15, 1860 in Allentown, where he was also buried.