Samuel Smith Harrison

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Samuel Smith Harrison (1780–April, 1853) 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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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by District Created

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district 1833 - 1837

Succeeded by William Beatty