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Senate Years of Service: 1919-1941 Party: Democrat
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HARRISON, Byron Patton (Pat), a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born at Crystal
Springs, Copiah County, Miss., August 29, 1881; attended the public schools;
briefly attended the University of Mississippi and the University of Louisiana
at Baton Rouge; taught school at Leakesville, Miss., and also studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Leakesville, Miss.;
district attorney for the second district of Mississippi 1906-1910, when he
resigned; moved to Gulfport, Miss., in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3,
1919); was not a candidate for renomination in 1918, having become a candidate
for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1918;
reelected in 1924, 1930, and again in 1936 and served from March 4, 1919, until
his death; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the
Seventy-seventh Congress; chairman, Committee on Finance (Seventy-third through
Seventy-seventh Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., June 22, 1941; services
were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Evergreen
Cemetery, Gulfport, Miss.
Bibliography American National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Coker, William S., Pat
Harrison - Strategy for Victory. Journal of Mississippi
History 28 (November 1966): 267-85; Swain, Martha H.
Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years. Jackson, Miss.: University
Press of Mississippi, 1978.
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