Henry Black (Representative)
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Henry Black (February 25, 1783 – November 28, 1841) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Henry Black was born near the borough of Somerset, Pennsylvania. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1816 to 1818. He was a justice of the peace and an associate judge of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, from 1820 to 1840.

Black was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Ogle and served until his death in Somerset in 1841. Interment in the family cemetery in Stony Creek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

His son was Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black and his grandson was Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Chauncey Forward Black.

Sources

• Henry Black (Representative) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

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