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Harry Cage

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Harry Cage
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Mississippi's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1885
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byDavid C. Dickson
Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
In office
1827–1832
Succeeded byGeorge W. Smyth
Personal details
Born
Henry Cage

(1795-04-05)April 5, 1795
Sumner County, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedDecember 31, 1858(1858-12-31) (aged 63)
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Resting placeMississippi, U.S.
Political partyJacksonian
SpouseCatharine N. Stewart
RelativesHarry T. Hays (nephew)
John Coffee Hays (nephew)
ProfessionPolitician, lawyer, judge

Henry Cage (April 5, 1795 – December 31, 1858) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1833 to 1835.

Biography

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Born at Cages Bend of the Cumberland River, Sumner County, Tennessee, he moved to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in early youth. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodville, Mississippi. Harry married Catharine N. Stewart (1804–1829), the fourth child of Lieutenant Governor Duncan Stewart. He served as judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, from 1829 to 1832.[1][2][3]

Congress

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Cage was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835).

Retirement and death

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He retired from the practice of law and settled on Woodlawn plantation in the parish of Terrebonne, near the town of Houma, in Louisiana.[1]

He died while visiting in New Orleans, on December 31, 1858. His remains were interred in the cemetery of the Stewart family in Mississippi.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.
  2. ^ Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.
  3. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 733.
  4. ^ United States Congress & C000018.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Seat created
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Mississippi's at-large congressional district

March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by
Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
1827–1832
Succeeded by