Henry R. Harris

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Henry R. Harris

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(February 2, 1828 — October 15, 1909) Henry Richard Harris was a businessman and politician. Harris was born in Sparta, Georgia in 1828. He graduated from Emory College in 1847 and began his career in politics. Harris served as a member to the State constitutional convention in 1861, before enlisting in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1879. He wasn’t reelected for the Forty-Sixth Congress in 1878, but was elected again for the Forty-Ninth Congress and served a second time in the House from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887. After serving in Congress and as the Third Assistant Postmaster General of the United States from 1887 to 1889, Harris worked in agriculture until his death in 1909. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000239]

Member of Georgia Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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