Harmar Denny
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Harmar Denny (May 13, 1794–January 29, 1852) was a businessman and Anti-Masonic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Harmar Denny, was born in Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA in 1813. He practiced law in Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1824 to 1829.
Denny was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Wilkins. He was reelected to the Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth Congresses and served from December 15, 1829, to March 3, 1837. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1836. He resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh, and was a delegate to the Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention in 1837. He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840. He was commissioner under act of incorporation of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, April 13, 1846, and incorporator of the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1848. He declined the nomination to be a candidate for Congress in 1850. He served as president of the Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad Company in 1851 and 1852. He was a trustee of the Western University of Pennsylvania and director of the Western Theological Seminary.
Harmar Denny was the great-grandfather of Congressman Harmar D. Denny, Jr. of Pennsylvania.
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| Preceded by William Wilkins |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district 1829–1833 |
Succeeded by Joseph Biles Anthony |
| Preceded by District Created |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district 1833–1837 |
Succeeded by Richard Biddle |
