Benjamin W. Harris

Benjamin Winslow Harris ( born November 10, 1823 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † February 7, 1907 ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1883 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Harris was the father of Congressman Robert O. Harris ( 1854-1926 ). He enjoyed a good education. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1849 was admitted to the bar he began in 1850 to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1857 he sat in the Massachusetts Senate. Between 1858 and 1866 he was a prosecutor for the South East of his home state. He then spent 1866-1873 the tax authorities in the second Financial District of Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Harris was in the second electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Oakes Ames on March 4, 1873. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1883 five legislative sessions. Since 1881 he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. In 1882, Harris gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. From 1887 to 1906 he was restructuring judge in Plymouth County. He died on February 7, 1907 in his home town of East Bridgewater.

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