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Harris, Henry R – Harris, Jonathan Newton

Harris, Henry R

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1828, in Sparta, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia convention in 1861; and was elected to the forty-third congress, and re-elected to the forty -fourth, forty-fifth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.

Harris, Henry S

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1850, in Belvidere, N. J. In 1877 he was appointed prosecutor of the pleas for Warren county; and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-seventh congress as democrat. a

Harris, J. Morrison

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1821, in Baltimore, Md.

He was a presidential elector in 1848. In 1855 he was elected a representative from Maryland in the thirty-fourth congress, and returned to the thirty-fifth congress in 1857. He was also re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866.

Harris, James E

soldier, lieuten- Licking county, Ohio. In 1897 he became ant governor, was born May 27, 1840, in lieutenant -governor of Nebraska.

Harris, John

congressman, born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1801 to 1809.

Harris, John

the founder of Harrisburg, was born in 1716, in Pennsylvania. He was chosen by the Indians at one of the council fires held with the Indians of the Six Nations, to keep the store on the frontier, which was the nucleus of the present city named for him. He died July 29, 1791, in Harrisburg, Pa.

Harris, John A

merchant, banker, United States senator, was born in 1826, in New York. He moved to Louisiana in 1864; was a member of the state constitutional convention; was a member of the board of registration; and also of the state senate. In 1868 he was elected a senator in congress from Louisiana for the term ending in 1873.

Harris, John Floyd

musician, composer, was born July 5, 1866, in Almont , Mich. He has taught the piano in Detroit and Port Huron for several years, and has attained success in concert work.

Harris, John S

merchant, financier, United States senator, was born Dec. 18, 1825, in Truxton, N. Y. He was elected to the Louisiana state senate in April, 1868; and was elected to the United States senate in July, 1868, as a republican.

Harris, John Thomas

lawyer, congressman, was born May 8, 1825, in Albemarle county, Va. He was a state elector in 1848, 1851 and 1855; a presidential elector in 1852 and 1856; and was twice elected attorney for the commonwealth. He was elected a representative. from Virginia to the thirty-sixth congress; and was also elected to the fortysecond and two succeeding congresses. He was re-elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.

Harris, John Woods

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1810, in Nelson county, Va. In 1838 he was a member of the first congress of the republic, which met at Austin, Tex. In 1846 he was appointed attorney-general of the new state, and was reappointed for a second term.

He died April 1, 1887, in Galveston, Tex.

Harris, Jonathan Newton

merchant, banker, state senator, was born Nov. 18, 1815, in Salem, Conn. In 1848 he Conyer, of Cincinnati, Ohio, which has conestablished the firm of J. N. Harris and tinued for half a century. He was a member of the legislature in 1855, and of the senate senate in 1864.