Thomas Henry (1779July 20, 1849) was an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the

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Biography

Henry was born in County Down in the Kingdom of Ireland. Immigrated to America and settled in

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, in 1798. He was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Simon Snyder on December 24, 1808. He was elected county commissioner in 1810. He served as captain of a company that went from Beaver to help defend the northern frontier from a threatened British invasion in 1814. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1815. He served as

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and clerk of courts from 1816 to 1821, and was elected sheriff of the county in 1821. He was proprietor and editor of the ''

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'' from 1821 to 1831. He served as county treasurer in 1828 and 1829. Henry was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress. He died in Beaver in 1849. Interment in Old Beaver Cemetery.

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1779 births 1849 deaths People from County Down Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Anti-Masonic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Pennsylvania prothonotaries People from Pennsylvania in the War of 1812 {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub