Aaron Fyfe Perry (1 January 1815-11 March 1893) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OH 1) from 4 March 1871 to 14 July 1872, succeeding Peter W. Strader and preceding Ozro J. Dodds.
Biography[]
Aaron Fyfe Perry was born in Leicester, Vermont in 1815, and he was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1838. He moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1840, and he served in the State House from 1847 to 1848 before moving to Cincinnati in 1854. He served as a delegate to the 1864 Republican National Convention and in the US House of Representatives from 1871 to 1872, when he resigned. Perry served as the government's chief counsel in the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1873, and he served as a presidential elector for Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. He died in 1893.