George E. Harris

George E. Harris

George Emrick Harris (born January 6, 1827 in Orange County , North Carolina , † March 19, 1911 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the first constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Harris came to Mississippi via Tennessee , where he attended public schools. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1854, he began to practice his new profession. During the Civil War he was lieutenant colonel in the army of the Confederate States .

After the war he became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1865 and 1866, during the reconstruction period , he was a district attorney. After Mississippi was resumed to the United States, Harris was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in 1870. There he took the vacant seat of Congressman of the first district of Mississippi since December 1860. Harris was able to serve in Congress between February 23, 1870 and March 3, 1873. Then the seat fell back to Lucius Lamar from the Democratic Party , who held this mandate between 1857 and 1860. Until 1995, when Roger Wicker was elected, George Harris remained the only Republican Congressman for the first constituency.

After the end of his tenure in Congress, Harris was Attorney General of the State of Mississippi from 1873 to 1877, and from 1877 to 1879 he was Lieutenant Governor's Assistant to Governor John Stone . After that he wrote some legal treatises. George Harris died in the federal capital Washington in March 1911.

Web links

• George E. Harris in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George E. Harris in the database of Find a Grave (English)