BLACK, HENRY, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born near the borough of Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., February 25, 1783;
attended the common schools;
engaged in agricultural pursuits;
member of the State house of representatives 1816-1818;
justice of the peace;
associate judge of Somerset County, Pa., 1820-1840;
elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Ogle and served from June 28, 1841, until his death in Somerset, Pa., on November 28, 1841;
interment in the family cemetery, Stony Creek Township, Somerset County, Pa.
