Joseph Fry Jr. was born in present-day
Upper Saucon Township, Pennsylvania. He participated in mercantile pursuits in Fryburg, later renamed
Coopersburg. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1816 and 1817, and served in the
Pennsylvania State Senate for the
8th district from 1817 to 1821. He served in the State militia and attained the rank of colonel. Fry was elected to the
Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the
Twenty-first Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1830. He resumed business activities, and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837 and 1838. On August 15, 1860 Joseph Fry Jr died at the age of 79 in
Allentown, Pennsylvania. ==References==