Biography

01/08/1775 - 02/28/1837

HARRISON, John, a Representative from Lebanon County; born, January 8, 1775 in Hanover Township, Lancaster County (now Dauphin County), Pa.; private, captain Thomas McIlhenney’s Company, Pennsylvania Militia (1812-1813, War of 1812); brigadier general, Pennsylvania Militia (1813-1814, War of 1812); farmer; elected, commissioner, Dauphin County (1807-1810); engaged, iron production; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1814); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1817-1818 and 1821-1822 terms; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1823-1824); died, February 28, 1837 in Hanover Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Hanover Presbyterian Churchyard, Grantville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.