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    Samuel Smith Harrison

    Birth: 1780

    Death: 4-1853

    Birth Date Prefix: Find-A-Grave says 1781

    Death Date Prefix: Find-A-Grave says 1854

Biography

Samuel Smith Harrison was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

"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."

Letter References

Letter from Benjamin Jennings Seward to William Henry Seward, January 22, 1841

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Biography: 
Samuel Smith Harrison was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. "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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smith_Harrison
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http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smith_Harrison