Henry Marie Brackenridge
Henry Marie Brackenridge
Biography
05/11/1786 - 01/18/1871
BRACKENRIDGE, Henry Marie, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, May 11, 1786 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; attended, French Academy, Louisiana; lawyer (1806-1810); appointed, Deputy Attorney General of the Territory of Orleans (1811); district judge, Louisiana (1812); appointed, commissioner, United States Frigate Congress to South America (1817-1818); judge, Western District of Florida (1821-1832); elected, United States Congress (Special Election, 1840-1841); appointed, commissioner, United States Treaty with Mexico (1841); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to serve the 1846 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1847 term; elected, delegate, State Whig Convention (1846); died, January 18, 1871 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Prospect Cemetery, Brackenridge, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Brackenridge, H. M. Views of Louisiana, Together with a Journal of the Voyage up the Missiouri River. Pittsburgh: s.p. 1814.
Brackenridge, H. M. Voyage to South America: Performed by Order of the Government, in the Years 1817 and 1818 in the Frigate Congress. Pittsburgh: s.p., 1819.
Brackenridge, H. M. History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain: Comprising of a Minute Account of the Various Military and Naval Operations. Philadelphia : J. Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1839.
Brackenridge, H. M. History of the Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania: Commonly Called the Whiskey Insurrection, 1794. Pittsburgh: W.S. Haven, 1859.
Brackenridge, H. M. Recollections of Persons and Places in the West. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1868.
Henry Marie Brackenridge and Family Papers, 1816-1889 (DAR.1937.03), Darlington Collection, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh.
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