Francis Jacob Harper

Who was Francis Jacob Harper?

Francis Jacob Harper 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. Interment in Frankford Cemetery. Reinterment in December 1848 in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.