James Thomas Harrison

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James Thomas Harrison (November 30, 1811 – May 22, 1879) was an American politician and a signatory of the Confederate States Constitution. He was born in Anderson County, South Carolina and later moved to Columbus, Mississippi. He represented Mississippi in the Provisional Confederate Congress from February 1861 to February 1862.

He was a descendant of Virginia Governor and United States Declaration of Independence signatory Benjamin Harrison V (1726–1791).

His daughter, Regina Harrison, married Confederate Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee in February 1865, during the waning months of the U.S. Civil War.[1]

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