John H. Harmanson

John Henry Harmanson ( born January 15, 1803 in Norfolk, Virginia; † October 24, 1850 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1850 he represented the state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, graduated from John Harmanson the Jefferson College in Washington ( Mississippi). In 1830 he moved to the Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. There he managed a cotton plantation; then he studied law.

Politically, Harmanson joined the Democratic Party, for which he sat in 1844 in the Senate of Louisiana. In the congressional elections of that year he was in the third constituency of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Bennett Dawson on March 4, 1845. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on October 24, 1850 in Congress. These were shaped by the events and the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Between 1845 and 1847 Harmanson was chairman of the Committee to review the expenditures of the Post Ministry. He was buried in the cemetery of the Moreau- Pointe Coupee Parish in the plantation.