Christopher Columbus Harris

Christopher Columbus Harris (born January 28, 1842 near Mount Hope , Lawrence County , Alabama , † January 10, 1935 in Decatur , Morgan County , Alabama) was an American lawyer, banker and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Christopher Columbus Harris attended community school and was also taught by private tutors. After the outbreak of the American Civil War , he enlisted in 1861 as a private in the Confederate Army , where he served in Company F, 16th Alabama Infantry . He was later promoted to lieutenant . Harris was captured during the course of the war and taken to Camp Chase in Ohio , where he spent the remainder of the war.

After the war, he served as a clerk in the Lawrence County District Court between 1865 and 1867 . He studied law , was admitted to the bar, and then began practicing in Moulton, Alabama in 1868 . Harris moved to Decatur, Alabama, in 1872, where he continued to practice as a lawyer. There he supported the establishment of the First National Bank of Decatur in 1887 , of which he had been president until January 1913. He then founded the local commercial bank in 1913, of which he was also the president.

Harris chaired the Democratic Executive Committee in the 8th Congressional District . He was elected to the 63rd US Congress to fill the vacancy created by the death of William N. Richardson . Harris decided against running for the subsequent 64th US Congress . He served in the US House of Representatives from May 11, 1914 to March 3, 1915.

At the end of his term he was President of the City National Bank of Decatur . Then he was elected chairman of the board on January 10, 1928. He died in Decatur in 1935 and was buried there in Decatur Cemetery .

Web links

• Christopher Columbus Harris in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• The Political Graveyard