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.