Francis Jacob Harper
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Francis Jacob Harper (March 5, 1800 – March 18, 1837) was a Democratic representative-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Francis J. Harper was born in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1832, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1834 and 1835.
Harper was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress, but died in Frankford in 1837, before the assembling of Congress. He was interred in Frankford Cemetery and reinterred in December 1848 in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Sources
- Francis Jacob Harper at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
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Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district 1837 |
Succeeded by Charles Naylor |
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- 1800 births
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- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania State Senators
- Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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- Burials at the Congressional Cemetery
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