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Jacob Fry Jr. (June 10, 1802 – November 28, 1866) was a Jacksonian and
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member of the
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from Pennsylvania.


Biography

Jacob Fry Jr. was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania. He taught school in Trappe, and served as clerk of courts of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, from 1830 to 1833. Fry was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in
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. He engaged in mercantile business in Trappe and was elected as a member of the
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in 1853 and 1854. He served as auditor general of Pennsylvania from 1857 to 1860. He resumed mercantile pursuits and died in Trappe in 1866. Interment in Augustus Lutheran Church Cemetery.


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1802 births 1866 deaths People from Trappe, Pennsylvania American Lutherans Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Pennsylvania Auditors General Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub