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Andrew L. Harris

Andrew Lintner Harris ‘The Farmer-Statesman’ Hero at Gettysburg. Last American Civil War General to serve as a Governor in the U.S. U.S. Commissioner and agricultural leader. William McKinley’s Ohio Running Mate

Career Service to State of Ohio

• 44th Governor, State of Ohio. “The Farmer-Statesman”, (from ‘Representative Men of Ohio’, 1908). Last Civil War General to serve as a Governor in the U.S. Served 1906-1909. Republican Nominee for Governor 1909 and early temperance activist, but lost narrowly. Signed legislation banning corporate political donations. Last Republican governor of Ohio before Taft-Roosevelt split in party. Official speaker at McKinley Memorial. Official speaker at Grant Memorial. Official speaker at several other memorials.

• William McKinley’s Ohio running mate, twice
• Lt. Governor three times, elected in 1893, 1895, 1905
• A dark horse candidate for Republican nominee as Vice President
• National Republican Convention delegate / elector
• Preble County Probate Judge, 1875-82
• Republican nominee for Congress, losing by a slim margin
• Leading Preble County attorney in private practice, 1865-6, 1870-75
• Senator, Senate of the State of Ohio, 1866-70
• Trained under uncle Joel Harris, J.P. and Judge Thompson before Civil War at Thompson and Harris, the top Preble County law partnership, 1860-1; admitted to bar 1865
• Papers at Ohio Historical Society; Harris Hall memorial and Harris scholarship at Miami University
• Resided while Governor during sessions at Hartmann Hotel and early member of Columbus Country Club, but kept residences in Eaton and at his farm

Service to United States and American Agriculture

U.S. Commissioner

Chairman, Agriculture Sub-committee, serving while a commissioner on the U.S. Industrial Commission [on Trusts]. Appointed by President William McKinley, served with other industrial leaders, Congressmen and Senators to report to President Theodore Roosevelt and Congress on the concentration of power in national trusts. Interviewed and questioned Andrew Carnegie, J.D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Charles Schwab among others, served 1898-1902. Extensive report published by US Government thereafter. President Roosevelt used McKinley’s U.S. Industrial Commission final report to launch in his name the ‘Trust-Busting Era’

Service to United States and Southwestern Ohio

Civil War General, Brevet rank, 1865. Last Civil War General to serve as Governor in the United States. Civil War Colonel, 75th OVI. Hero at Gettysburg. Commanded 2nd Brigade, 1st Division under Gen. Ames, 11th Corps under Gen. Howard, United State Army under Gen. Meade, in the defense of the Union lines at Cemetery Ridge. Bore the brunt of the attack on the United States armies on the second day of battle at Gettysburg in the attempt to delay the rebel army’s advance, losing half his men there and wounded in the line of duty. Gettysburg has been deemed by historians the place where the rebel invasion of the North was turned back, and the battle is described as the turning point in the Civil War. The United States soldiers were immortalized by Lincoln in his ‘Gettysburg Address’. Harris and his brigade are memorialized with a stone monument north of Cemetery Ridge.

Commanded U.S. troops in regular volunteer infantry, and also as mounted cavalry in Georgia and Florida. Organized two companies of Butler and Preble County volunteers. Wounded at Gettysburg and elsewhere.

Enlisted originally as private, then lieutenant, raising a company of volunteers, Company C, 20th OVI, and 75th OVI. Served with kinsman William Harris, who died a POW, and Joseph Harris, his roommate at Miami University from which both graduated in 1860. Other Butler County kinsman, including Dr. Joseph Wilson Harris and Henry Harris, served in other Ohio Volunteer Infantry units.

Descendant of several Revolutionary War veterans. One of patriarchs of Harris family of Butler County. Cousin of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard.

Born in Milford Township, Butler County, which was named by great grandfather Judge Robert Lytle, a revolutionary war veteran who acquired a section of land directly from the U.S. Birthplace near ‘Harris Road’, where his uncle and grandfather Joseph Harris acquired 160 acres of school lands directly from Milford Township and the State of Ohio.

Ancestors Joseph Harris and William Lytle were early settlers in the village of Cincinnati and at Ft. Washington

Civil War photographic daguerreotype by Matthew Brady Studio as young officer. Official Governor’s portrait formerly hung in Ohio Capitol. Memorialized under 2004 Ohio law naming state highway [127] from Butler County (at Seven Mile) to Preble County (at Eaton) the “Governor Andrew L. Harris Bicentennial Roadway”. Eaton House and residence recognized, though Dixon twp. farm is not marked and farmhouse has been demolished.

Over 25 years of public service to the Ohio Volunteer Infantry and United States Army, Ohio Senate, Ohio Judiciary, Ohio Executive Branch, and the U.S. Congress and Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt as a Commissioner.

Supporter of founding of Harris family reunion association and frequent speaker at US and local ceremonies. Son, husband and father. Only surviving child, Walter Harris, a noted photographer, died without issue. Represented by collateral Harris descendants in Butler County and Preble County.

See also: Harris family reunion association

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