Henry L. Cake

Henry Lutz Cake (born October 6, 1827 in Northumberland , Northumberland County , Pennsylvania , †  August 26, 1899 there ) was an American politician . Between 1867 and 1871 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Cake attended both public and private schools and then completed an apprenticeship in printing. He published the Pottsville Mining Record newspaper until the outbreak of the Civil War . Between 1861 and 1863 he served as an officer in the Union Army during the war . He rose to the position of colonel in a volunteer unit from Pennsylvania. From 1863 he lived in Tamaqua , where he worked in the mining and shipping of anthracite coal. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1866 Cake was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Democrat Myer Strouse on March 4, 1867 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1871 . Until 1869, the work of Congress was weighed down by tensions between Republicans and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in a narrowly unsuccessful impeachment trial. From 1869, Cake was chairman of the Committee on Accounts . In 1870 he was not re-elected.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Henry Cake resumed his previous mining activities. He died on August 26, 1899 in his hometown of Northumberland.

Web links

• Henry L. Cake in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry L. Cake in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Myer Strouse	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (10th constituency) March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1871	John Weinland Killinger