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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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HARRISON, Thomas Walter, (father of Burr Powell Harrison),
a Representative from Virginia; born in Leesburg, Loudoun County,
Va., August 5, 1856; attended local academies at Leesburg, Middleburg, and
Hanover; was graduated from the academic and law departments of the University
of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1879; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and
commenced practice in Winchester, Va.; member of the State senate 1887-1894;
judge of the circuit court for the seventeenth judicial district of Virginia
from 1895 until September 1, 1916; editor of the Winchester Times; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1901 and 1902; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
James Hay; reelected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses and served
from November 7, 1916, to March 3, 1921; presented credentials as a
Member-elect to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1921, to
December 15, 1922, when he was succeeded by John Paul, who contested his
election; elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses
(March 4, 1923-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to
the Seventy-first Congress; practiced law in Winchester, Va., until his death
there on May 9, 1935; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
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