George E. Harris

George Emrick Harris ( born January 6, 1827 Orange County, North Carolina, † March 19, 1911 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Harris came over Tennessee in the state of Mississippi, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1854 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to practice in his new profession. During the Civil War he was a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the Confederate States.

After the war he became a member of the Republican Party. Between 1865 and 1866, during the reconstruction period, he was district attorney. After the resumption of the State of Mississippi in the United States Harris was elected in 1870 in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took the vacant seat since December 1860 Congressman of the first district of Mississippi. Harris was able to implement his mandate in Congress between 23 February 1870 and 3 March 1873. Then the seat back fell to Lucius Lamar from the Democratic Party, who already held this mandate 1857-1860. By the year 1995, when Roger Wicker was elected, George Harris was the only Republican Congressman of the first election district.

After the end of his time in Congress Harris was 1873-1877 Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, and from 1877 to 1879, he served as Deputy Governor Deputy Governor Johnstone. Then he wrote some legal treatises. George Harris died in March 1911 in the German capital Washington.