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Finding Aid for the Pat Harrison Collection (MUM00222) University of Mississippi eGrove Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids Library November 2020 Finding Aid for the Pat Harrison Collection (MUM00222) Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids Recommended Citation Pat Harrison Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by the Library at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Finding Aid for the Pat Harrison Collection (MUM00222) Questions? Contact us! Open for research. This collection is stored at an off-site facility. Researchers interested in using this collection must contact Archives and Special Collections at least two business days in advance of their planned visit. Finding Aid for the Pat Harrison Collection Table of Contents Administrative Information Subject Terms Biography Bibliography Scope and Content Note User Information Related Material Separated Material Arrangement Container List Title: Pat Harrison Collection Dates: 1883-1943 (bulk 1919-1941) Collector: Harrison Family Physical Extent: 116 boxes Repository: University of Mississippi. Department of Archives and Special Collections. University, MS 38677, USA Identification: MUM00222 Location: Library Annex C7-C10 and Cold Room Collection Photographs Boxes 45 & 46 Language of Material: English Abstract: The Pat Harrison Collection contains both personal and congressional records of Pat Harrison who represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives (1911-1919) and in the U.S. Senate (1919-1941). Administrative Information Acquisition Information Pat Harrison's widow, Mary Edwina McInnis Harrison, donated the papers to the University of Mississippi in 1941-1942. In 1978, Senate Historian Richard Baker transferred four boxes of Pat Harrison files previously in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration to Special Collections (Boxes 104-107). Processing Information In 2007, student assistant Suzanne Farmer completed a typed version of the original 1940s handwritten finding aid. Political Papers Archivist Leigh McWhite revised the finding aid and created introductory bibliographic notes. Finding aid originally encoded Chatham Ewing. Revised and portions re-encoded May 2009 by Jason Kovari. Finding aid updated March 2020 by Abigail Norris. Additions No further additions are expected to this collection. Subject Terms Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941 United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Politicians New Deal, 1933-1939 Mississippi -- History United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 Formats speeches clippings (information artifacts) scrapbooks political cartoons photographs correspondence press releases files (document groupings) invitations Biography Byron Patton Harrison was born on 29 August 1881 in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. His father, a Confederate veteran, died when the child was only four years old, and a young Pat eventually hawked newspapers to supplement the family's meager income. After completing high school, Harrison attended Mississippi State College and Louisiana State University where he played baseball. His aptitude earned him a spot on the semi-professional circuit during the summer. Harrison left college to study law, a pursuit he supported financially by teaching school at Leakesville, Mississippi. There, he opened his law practice after passing the bar in 1902. Subsequently, he served six years as district attorney for the state's second district. In 1910, Harrison successfully campaigned as a Democrat for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The young legislator quickly earned a reputation for his witty repartee in partisan debate, and Harrison proved to be an effective aide to President Woodrow Wilson. In 1918, Harrison decided to run against incumbent U.S. Senator James K. Vardaman who opposed the president's foreign policy. Emphasizing his support for Wilson, Harrison won the majority of Mississippi voters to gain the Senate seat that would remain his until death. In 1920, the Democrats lost their majority in Congress. Republicans dubbed Harrison the "Democratic Gadfly" for his sarcastic attacks and ridicule of GOP policy, particularly the tariff and foreign policy. President Warren G. Harding labeled the Mississippi politician chief party troublemaker in the Senate. Yet despite these verbal salvos, Harrison maintained warm collegial relations with his colleagues in the opposition. High in the council of his party, Harrison helped to arrange the nomination of James M. Cox for President (and Franklin D. Roosevelt as Vice President) in 1920. He also contributed to the presidential nomination of Al Smith in 1928. Four years later, he preserved Mississippi's nominating ballots for Franklin D. Roosevelt despite wide divisions among the state's electors. With the return of Congress to Democratic control in 1932, Harrison transformed from gadfly to skilled legislator. Members of the Press Gallery referred to Harrison as "The Old Fox." No longer making speeches from the floor to goad the majority opposition, the Mississippi statesman became known for his cloakroom persuasive power and strategic maneuverings. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he shepherded much of the New Deal legislation through Congress: the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Social Security Act, parts of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, New Deal tax legislation, and the Soldiers' Bonus Act. Relations with President Roosevelt became strained as Harrison voiced opposition to some of the administration's fiscal policies. In 1937, the president backed Alben Barkley instead of Harrison during a close contest for Majority Leader. Losing by one vote, Harrison gracefully moved that the party's caucus unanimously elect the senator from Kentucky. Loyal to the party and the New Deal despite his reservations over selected issues, the estrangement with the administration ended when Harrison backed Roosevelt's third presidential nomination in 1940. As ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Harrison also helped to steer passage of the Lend-Lease legislation that provided arms and supplies to Britain prior to America's entrance into World War II. In 1940, his colleagues unanimously elected Harrison President Pro Tempore of the Senate. A year later, over 2,000 people attended a reception at the Carlton Hotel to celebrate the Mississippian's thirty years in Congress, considered the largest occasion of its kind ever seen in Washington, DC. Harrison died on 22 June 1941 in a Washington, DC hospital following an intestinal operation for cancer. His body lay in state in the Senate chambers prior to transportation back to his home in Gulfport, Mississippi where he was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Eulogizing the senator, Roosevelt described his friend as "keen of intellect, sound in principle, shrewd in judgment [with] rare gifts of kindly wit, humor, ad irony which delighted all." Harrison was survived by his wife Mary Edwina McInnis Harrison, his son Pat Harrison Jr., and his daughters Mrs. James W. Cummings and Mrs. Irvin Miller. Bibliography Coker, William S. "Pat Harrison: The Formative Years, 1911-1919." M.A. thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1962. _____________. "Pat Harrison: The Formative Years. " Journal of Mississippi History 25 (October 1963): 251-78. _____________. "Pat Harrison's Efforts to Reopen the Choctaw Citizenship Rolls."Southern Quarterly 3 (October 1964): 36-61. _____________. "Pat Harrison - Strategy for Victory." Journal of Mississippi History 28 (November 1966): 267- 85. Edmonson, Ben G. "Pat Harrison: The Gadfly of the Senate." M.A. thesis, University of Mississippi, 1967. ______________. "Pat Harrison and Mississippi in the Presidential Elections of 1924 and 1928." Journal of Mississippi History 33 (November 1971): 333-50. "End of a Creed" Time (30 June 1941). Grant, Philip A. "Editorial Reaction to the Harrison-Barkley Senate Leadership Contest, 1937." Journal of Mississippi History 36 (November 1974): 363-76. Gregory, Chellis O'Neal. "Pat Harrison and the New Deal." M.A. thesis, University of Mississippi, 1960. Harrison, Pat. Cruiser Construction and the Kellogg Peace Pact. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1928. __________. Opinions of United States District Court, District of Delaware; United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Court; Supreme Court of the United States. United States of American v. the Chemical Foundation Incorporated, and Speech of Hon. Pat Harrison in U.S. Senate on February 4, 1930. New York: Pandick Press, 1930. "Harrison Astute in Senate's Work" New York Times (23 June 1941). "Harrison Body Lies in State in Senate; Chamber Adjourns" Washington Evening Star (23 June 1941). "Harrison Was Roosevelt's Trusted Aide" Washington Post (23 June 1941). Herring, Clyde L. America's Insurance against World Anarchy: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Pat Harrison of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States. [Washington, DC]: n.p., 1939. King, Samuel Wilder. Hawaii Asks to Be Treated as Part of the United States and Not as a Foreign Country. [Letter...to Honorable Pat Harrison, Chairman Finance Committee, U.S. Senate and Honorable Marvin Jones, Chairman, Committee
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