CS Con Harrison, James Thomas - C.S. Delegate, MS

James Thomas Harrison
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Born: November 30, 1811

Birthplace: Pendleton, South Carolina

Father: Thomas Harrison 1790 – 1837

Mother: Hannah Earle 1795 – 1842

Wife: Regina Blewett 1820 – 1890

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

Children:

Regina Lily Harrison Lee 1841 – 1903​

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

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Captain Thomas Harrison 1843 – 1910​

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

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James T. Harrison 1845 – 1846​

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

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James T. Harrison 1848 – 1928​

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

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Jessie Alice Harrison 1849 – 1850​

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

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Allen Blewett Harrison 1852 – 1922​

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

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Mary Blewett Harrison 1858 – 1915​

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

Son–in–law: Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee 1833 – 1908

(Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi)​

Political Party: Democratic Party

Education:

1829: Graduated from South Carolina College​

Occupation before War:

1834 – 1836: Attorney in Macon, Mississippi​

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1836 – 1861: Attorney in Columbus, Mississippi​

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Local leader in northeast Mississippi​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Mississippi Delegate to Confederate Provisional Congress​

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He seldom missed a day in attendance of Provisional Congress.​

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He volunteered few suggestions of his own in Congress.​

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Only in rare instances did he even cater to local interests​

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1862: Choose not to run for regular Confederate Congress​

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1862 – 1879: Attorney in Columbus, Mississippi​

Occupation after War:

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1862 – 1879: Attorney in Columbus, Mississippi​

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Elected to the U.S Congress but refused admission​

Died: May 22, 1879

Place of Death: Columbus, Mississippi

Age at time of Death: 67 years old

Burial Place: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi

 

[Pollaco]

In addition to being Stephen Lee's father-in-law, He was a descendant of Benjamin Harrison. Not the President Harrison but a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

 

[Pollaco]

I haven't found "it" yet but it sort of sounds like he was possibly some relation to the CS Generals Thomas and James Edward Harrison. Them being born in SC and moving to Miss may be just a coincidence though.