Wiley P. Harris

Wiley Pope Harris (born November 9, 1818 near Holmesville , Pike County , Mississippi , † December 3, 1891 in Jackson , Mississippi) was an American politician and Congressman for Mississippi.

Career

Wiley Pope Harris was born on November 9, 1818 near Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi. He attended community schools and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville . He graduated from the Legal Department of Transylvania College in Lexington , Kentucky in 1840 , was admitted to the bar that year, and then began practicing in Gallatin , Copiah County , Mississippi. Afterwards it was (1844-1850 Amtsrichter engl. Circuit Judge ) of the second district. He was also a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1850, 1861, and 1890. Harris was elected as a Democrat in 1853 to the thirty-third Congress, where he served from March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1855. In 1854 he decided not to run for re-election and returned to his practice as a lawyer in Jackson, Mississippi. Later in 1861 he was a deputy in the Provisional Confederate Congress of the Confederate States of America . After the American Civil War , he returned to Jackson, Mississippi, where he continued his practice as a lawyer. He died there on December 3, 1891 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

Web links

• Wiley P. Harris in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)