Mark Harris (politician, 1779)

Mark Harris (born January 27, 1779 in Ipswich , Essex County , Massachusetts , †  March 2, 1843 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1822 and 1823 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mark Harris attended public schools in his home country. In 1800 he moved to Portland , which was part of Massachusetts until 1820 and has been part of the State of Maine ever since. Harris started trading in Portland. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1816 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate. He also held a number of local offices in Portland.

After the resignation of Congressman Ezekiel Whitman in 1822, Harris was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Maine as his successor . There he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1822. By March 3, 1823, he ended the current legislative period of his predecessor in Congress .

After his brief stint in the federal capital, Harris resumed his previous trade. In 1830 he was elected to the Maine House of Representatives. Harris was also a chamberlain in Cumberland County between 1824 and 1832 . He held this office again from 1834 to 1840. He was State Treasurer of Maine in 1828 and from 1832 to 1834 . In 1842 he moved to New York, where he also worked in commerce. He died there on March 2, 1843. Mark Harris was buried in Portland.

Web links

• Mark Harris in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Mark Harris in the database of Find a Grave (English)