Samuel Smith Harrison (1780April 1853) was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
Biography
Samuel Smith Harrison was born in
Virginia
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in 1780. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He moved to
Kittanning, Pennsylvania
Kittanning ( pronounced ) is a borough in, and the county seat of, Armstrong County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is situated northeast of Pittsburgh, along the east bank of the Allegheny River.
The name is derived from ''Kithanink'' ...
. He was elected as a Jacksonian to the
Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses. He resumed the practice of law and died in Kittanning in 1853. Interment in Old Kittanning Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
Pennsylvania lawyers
1780 births
1853 deaths
Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
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