Horace Harrison

Horace Harrison

Horace Harrison Harrison (born August 7, 1829 in Lebanon , Tennessee , †  December 20, 1885 in Nashville , Tennessee) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Horace Harrison first attended the Carroll Academy and then studied classical studies . In 1841 he moved to McMinnville with his parents . There he later worked as a court usher and notary. In 1851 and 1852 he was an administrative clerk with the Tennessee Senate . After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1857, he began to work in McMinnville in his new profession. In 1859 he moved his office and residence to Nashville.

Harrison was a federal attorney from 1863 to 1866 ; in 1867 and 1868 he served as a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court . He was then again a federal prosecutor from 1872 to 1873. Politically, Harrison was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1872 he was elected in the fifth constituency of Tennessee to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Edward Isaac Golladay on March 4, 1873 . Since he in the elections of 1874 the Democrats John Morgan Bright defeated, he could only one term in until March 4, 1875 Congress completed. To date, he is the last Republican to represent the fifth district of Tennessee there.

In 1880 Horace Harrisson was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where James A. Garfield was nominated as a presidential candidate. He was still a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee in 1880 and 1881 . He died in Nashville on December 20, 1885.

Web links

• Horace Harrison in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Horace Harrison in the database of Find a Grave (English)