Harris, Benjamin Gwinn

Life Span
to
Full name
Benjamin Gwinn Harris
Place of Birth
Leonardtown, MD
Burial Place
Leonardtown, MD
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
Family
Joseph Harris (father), Susannah Reeder Harris (mother), Martha Elizabeth (wife)
Education
Yale
Occupation
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Government
US House of Representatives
State legislature
Date Event
In Congress, Representative Harris of Maryland is immediately censured for disloyal comments in debate
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Civil Liberties
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