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Harris, William A (Farmer soldier civil engineer)

farmer, soldier, civil engineer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 29, 1841, in Loudoun county, Va. He served three years in the confederate army as assistant adjutant-general of Wilcox's brigade and ordnance officer of D. H. Hill's and Rode's division, army of northern Virginia. He moved to Kansas in 1865 and was employed as civil engineer in the construction of the Union Pacific railroad, Kansas division, for three years. He was elected to the fifty-third congress, at large, as a populist, and indorsed by the democrats.

He was elected to the United States senate as a populist.