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4 unusual facts about Burton Harrison


Burton Harrison

Burton and Constance Harrison were the parents of Fairfax Harrison (1869-1938) and Francis Burton Harrison (1873-1957).

At the end of the American Civil War he was captured by the Union Army with Jefferson Davis, and Varina Davis, and imprisoned at Fort Delaware, where he resumed his long-interrupted law studies.

In 1880, Harrison attended the Democratic convention in Cincinnati where he opposed William Jennings Bryan.

In 1872, he was an envoy to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with Samuel P. Samuels, and T. Scott Stewart, to negotiate annexation, with Buenaventura Báez.



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