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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaHarmar DENNY
(1794-1852)
DENNY, Harmar,
(great-grandfather of Harmar Denny Denny, Jr.), a Representative
from Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 13, 1794; was
graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1813; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in
Pittsburgh, Pa.; member of the State house of representatives
1824-1829; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-first
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William
Wilkins; reelected to the Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth
Congresses and served from December 15, 1829, to March 3, 1837; was
not a candidate for renomination in 1836; resumed the practice of
law in Pittsburgh, Pa.; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1837; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in
1840; commissioner under act of incorporation of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. April 13, 1846; incorporator of Ohio &
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 1848; declined the nomination to be a
candidate for Congress in 1850; president of the Pittsburgh &
Steubenville Railroad Co. in 1851 and 1852; trustee of the Western
University of Pennsylvania and director of the Western Theological
Seminary; died in Pittsburgh, Pa., January 29, 1852; interment in
Allegheny Cemetery.
Bibliography
Backofen, Catherine. “Congressman Harmar Denny.”
Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 23 (June 1940):
65-78.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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