Carter Henry Harrison (1796 - 1825)

Born 30 Sep 1796 in Ampt Hill House, Fayette County, Kentucky

Ancestors

Husband of Caroline Evaline Russell — married 31 Jan 1822 in Fayette Co., KY

Descendants

Died 9 Oct 1825 at age 29 in Elk Hill House, Fayette County, Kentucky

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Note

Note: The biography of Carter Henry Harrison from the Biographical Directory

of the American Congress follows:

HARRISON, Carter Henry, 1825-1893

HARRISON, Carter Henry, a Representative from Illinois; born near

Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., February 15, 1825; educated by private

tutors; was graduated from Yale College in 1845; traveled and studied

in Europe 1851-1853; was graduated from the law department of

Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., in 1855; was admitted to the bar

in 1855 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; also engaged in the

real estate business; unsuccessful candidate in 1872 for election to

the Forty-third Congress; member of the board of commissioners of Cook

County 1874-1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and

Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); was not a

candidate for renomination in 1878; mayor of Chicago 1879-1887 and

declined a renomination; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of

Illinois in 1884; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in

1880 and 1884; owner and editor of the Chicago Times 1891-1893; again

elected mayor of Chicago in 1893 and served until his death in Chicago

by assassination October 28, 1893; interment in Graceland Cemetery,

Chicago, Ill.

Bibliography

DAB; Harrison, Carter Henry. Stormy Years: The Autobiography of Carter

H. Harrison, Five Times Mayor of Chicago. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill

Co., 1935; Johnson, Claudius Osborne. Carter Henry Harrison I,

Political Leader. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928.

Sources

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[2] The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company: Parents, Siblings, Birth, Death, Child, Wife, Marriage page 520