Albert Galliton Harrison

Albert Galliton Harrison (June 26, 1800 – September 7, 1839) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Harrison completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1820.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Mount Sterling.He moved to Fulton, Missouri, in 1827 and continued the practice of law.He served as member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1828.He served as member of the commission to adjust land titles growing out of Spanish grants 1829-1835.

Harrison was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839).He died in Fulton, Missouri, September 7, 1839.He was interred in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C..

Harrison County, Missouri was named for him.

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