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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeIsham Green HARRIS
(1818-1897)
Senate Years of Service:
1877-1897Party: DemocratHARRIS, Isham Green, a
Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born near Tullahoma,
Franklin County, Tenn., February 10, 1818; attended the common
schools and Winchester Academy; moved to Paris, Tenn., to become a
store clerk; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Paris, Henry County, Tenn., in 1841; member, State
senate 1847; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and
Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); declined to
be a candidate for renomination in 1852; chairman, Committee on
Invalid Pensions (Thirty-second Congress); moved to Memphis in 1853
and resumed the practice of law; elected Governor of Tennessee in
1857, 1859, and 1861, and committed Tennessee to the Confederate
cause; served in the Confederate Army for the last three years of
the Civil War; after the Civil War, fled first to Mexico, then to
England; returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law in
Memphis; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1877;
reelected in 1883, 1889, and 1895 and served from March 4, 1877,
until his death; served as President pro tempore of the Senate
during the Fifty-third Congress; chairman, Committee on District of
Columbia (Forty-sixth and Fifty-third Congresses), Committee on
Epidemic Diseases (Forty-ninth through Fifty-second Congresses),
Committee on Private Land Claims (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth
Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., July 8, 1897; funeral
services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate;
interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 55th
Cong., 2nd sess., 1897-1898. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1898; Watters, George W. “Isham Green Harris, Civil
War Governor and Senator from Tennessee, 1818-1897.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Florida State University, 1977.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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