Biography

05/13/1794 - 01/29/1852

DENNY, Harmar, a Representative from Allegheny and Butler Counties; born, May 13, 1794 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; graduated, Dickinson College, 1813; lawyer (1816-1852); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1823); director, Bank of Pittsburgh (1823-1824); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1826-1827 and 1827-1828 term; elected, United States Congress (1829-1837); director, The Western Theological Seminary (1830-1852); director, Exchange Bank of Pittsburgh (1836, 1843-1845, 1847, 1850-1851); elected, delegate, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (1837-1838); elected, delegate, National Whig Convention (1840); trustee, Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh) (1840-1852); commissioner, Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (1846); director, Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (1848); president, Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad Co. (1851-1852); died, January 29, 1852 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.