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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiHARRISON, Byron Patton (Pat)
(1881—1941)
Senate Years of Service:
1919-1941
Party:
Democrat
HARRISON, Byron Patton (Pat), a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born at Crystal Springs, Copiah County, Miss., August 29, 1881; attended the public schools; briefly attended the University of Mississippi and the University of Louisiana at Baton Rouge; taught school at Leakesville, Miss., and also studied law; admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Leakesville, Miss.; district attorney for the second district of Mississippi 1906-1910, when he resigned; moved to Gulfport, Miss., in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); was not a candidate for renomination in 1918, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924, 1930, and again in 1936 and served from March 4, 1919, until his death; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Seventy-seventh Congress; chairman, Committee on Finance (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., June 22, 1941; services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Gulfport, Miss.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Coker, William S., “Pat Harrison - Strategy for Victory.” Journal of Mississippi History
28 (November 1966): 267-85; Swain, Martha H. Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years
. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1978.
Coker, William S. “Pat Harrison: The Formative Years.” Journal of Mississippi History
25 (October 1963): 251-78.
___. “Pat Harrison: The Formative Years, 1911-1919.” Master’s thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1962.
___. “Pat Harrison—Strategy For Victory.” Journal of Mississippi History
28 (November 1966): 267-85.
___. “Pat Harrison’s Efforts to Reopen the Choctaw Citizenship Rolls.” Southern Quarterly
3 (October 1964): 36-61.
Edmonson, Ben G. “Pat Harrison and Mississippi in the Presidential Elections of 1924 and 1928.” Journal of Mississippi History
33 (November 1971): 333-50.
Grant, Philip A. “Editorial Reaction to the Harrison-Barkley Senate Leadership Contest, 1937.” Journal of Mississippi History
36 (May 1974): 127-41.
Porter, David. “Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi and the Reciprocal Trade Act of 1940.” Journal of Mississippi History
36 (November 1974): 363-76.
Swain, Martha H. “The Harrison Education Bills, 1936-1941.” Mississippi Quarterly
31 (Winter 1977-1978): 119-31.
___. “The Lion and the Fox: The Relationship of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Senator Pat Harrison.” Journal of Mississippi History
38 (November 1976): 333-59.
___. Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years
. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1978.
___. “Pat Harrison and the Social Security Act of 1935.” Southern Quarterly
15 (October 1976): 1-14.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy, Byron Patton Harrison, Late a Senator from Mississippi
. 77th Cong., 2d sess., 1942. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1944.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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