Hamilton Harris
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| Member of the New York State Senate | |
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| Constituency | 13th District |
| Member of the New York State Assembly | |
| In office 1851 | |
| Constituency | 3rd District |
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| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Preble, New York, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Albany, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Albany Rural Cemetery |
| Party | Republican |
| SpouseScript error: No such module "Detect singular". | Lucy Moody Rogers |
| Education | Union College |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician |
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Hamilton Harris (May 1, 1820 – December 14, 1900) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
Hamilton Harris was born in Preble, New York on May 1, 1820.[1] He studied at the Cortland Academy and the Albany Academy.[2] Harris graduated from Union College in 1841. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practiced in Albany.[3] He married Lucy Moody Rogers (1829–1898) in 1850.[4]
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Albany Co., 3rd D.) in 1851; and District Attorney of Albany County from 1854 to 1856.[5]
He was a member of the New York State Republican Committee from 1864 to 1870; and a member of the Board of Capitol Commissioners from 1865 to 1875.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (13th D.) from 1876 to 1879, sitting in the 99th, 100th, 101st and 102nd New York State Legislatures.
In 1885, Harris was elected a Regent of the University of the State of New York.[6] In 1891, he was conferred an honorary LL.D. degree by Union College.[4]
He died in Albany on December 14, 1900, and was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.[3]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 414. Retrieved April 21, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard (1906). "Harris, Hamilton". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. V. Boston, Massachusetts: American Biographical Society. p. 120. Retrieved July 14, 2025 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Death List of a Day: Hamilton Harris" (PDF). The New York Times. Albany. December 16, 1900. p. 7. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harrison, Mitchell C. (1900). "Hamilton Harris". New York State's Prominent and Progressive Men: An Encyclopædia of Contemporaneous Biography. Vol. II. New York Tribune. pp. 144–145. Retrieved July 14, 2025 – via Google Books.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hutchins, Stephen C. (1870). The New York Civil List. Weed, Parsons & Company. pp. 470, 540. Retrieved April 21, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The New Regents" (PDF). The New York Times. March 11, 1885. p. 2. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
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