Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Hugh Henry Brackenridge
portrait by Gilbert Stuart
Born1748 
DiedJune 25, 1816  (aged 67–68)
OccupationWriter 

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, United States, 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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