Albert Galliton Harrison

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|name = Albert G. Harrison

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|restingplace = Congressional Cemetery

| order = Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's at-large district

| term_start = March 4, 1835

| term_end = September 7, 1839

| predecessor= John Bull

| successor = John Jameson

|party = Jacksonian democracy
Democratic Party

|birth_date = {{birth date|1800|6|26}}

|birth_place = Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1839|9|7|1800|6|26}}

|death_place = Fulton, Missouri, U.S.

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|alma_mater = Transylvania University

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Albert Galliton Harrison (June 26, 1800 – September 7, 1839) was a three-term United States Representative from Missouri and a slaveholder.{{cite news |last1=Weil |first1=Julie Zauzmer |last2=Blanco |first2=Adrian |last3=Dominguez |first3=Leo |title=More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ |access-date=30 January 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=20 January 2022}} From 1835 to 1839, he served two terms in Congress.

Biography

Born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Harrison graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1820. He was then admitted to the bar and began his law practice in Mount Sterling. Seven years later, he moved to Fulton, Missouri.

Harrison served as member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1828, and from 1829 to 1835 was a member of the commission to settle land titles growing out of Spanish grants.

= Congress =

In 1832, he was elected as a Jacksonian Democratic Representative to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837). Harrison was re-elected as a Democratic Representative to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837 – September 7, 1839).

= Death =

Albert G. Harrison died six months into his third term in Fulton, Missouri at the age of 39 in 1839. His remains were interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C..