H. H. Brackenridge

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Brackenridge' best known written works are the satire Modern Chivalry and a work about the Whiskey Rebellion entitled Incidents of the Insurrection in the Western Parts of Pennsylvania.

Banner photo of Pittsburgh at sunset was taken by Jason Pratt, 2005. Cropped. CC BY 2.0

Portrait Of Hugh Henry Brackenridge by Gilbert Stuart

Hugh Henry Brackenridge by Gilbert Stuart (1810)

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Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) from the Duke Law Scholarship Repository

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Selected Books by H. H. Brackenridge

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