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Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee)

b. 1818-02-10 d. 1897-07-08

Memphis, Tennessee, attorney and governor of Tennessee. Franklin County, Tennessee, native. Son of Isham Harris and Lucy Davidson Harris. Married Martha Mariah Travis Harris in 1843. Father of Eugene Harris, James Harris, Edwin Harris, Charles Harris, and Isham Harris. Attended Winchester Academy in Winchester, Tennessee. Clerk in Paris, Tennessee, in 1832. Merchant in Ripley, Mississippi. Attorney in Paris in 1841. Member of the State Senate of Tennessee tin 1847. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States in 1848 to1852. Governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862. Resident of Memphis in 1860. Owned five enslaved people in Memphis in 1860. Served as a volunteer aide de-camp in the Confederate Army from 1862 to 1865. Fled to Mexico in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, 14th District, p. 143.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, 14th District, p. 21.

Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-65, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M346, Roll 0410.

Leonard Schulp, "Isham Green Harris" in The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, version 2.0, http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=608, (accessed September 18, 2017).

Sam Davis Elliott, Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010).

Citation

Harris, Isham Green. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212523 (November 12, 2026).

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