Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Hugh Henry Brackenridge
portrait by Gilbert Stuart
Born1748 Edit this on Wikidata
Died25 June 1816 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 67–68)
OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata

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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