Samuel Smith Harrison Explained

Samuel S. Harrison
State:Pennsylvania
District:23rd
Term Start:March 4, 1833
Term End:March 3, 1837
Preceded:District created
Succeeded:William Beatty
Birth Date: 1780
Birth Place:Virginia
Death Place:Kittanning, Pennsylvania
Party:Jacksonian

Samuel Smith Harrison (1780April 1853) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Samuel Smith Harrison was born in Virginia in 1780. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He moved to Kittanning, Pennsylvania. 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.

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