Background
Harris, Robert was born on September 5, 1768 in Harris Ferry (now Harrisburg), Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative politician
Harris, Robert was born on September 5, 1768 in Harris Ferry (now Harrisburg), Pennsylvania, United States.
He assisted in establishing various enterprises, including building of the bridge over the Susquehanna River, the organization of the Harrisburg Bank, and the construction of the Middletown Turnpike Road. He was the surveyor to lay off the road from Chambersburg to Pittsburgh, and also for improving the Susquehanna River. He was appointed commissioner to choose the location of the capitol building in Harrisburg. he was a paymaster in the Army during the War of 1812.
Harris was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress.
He served as prothonotary of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and died in Harrisburg in 1851. Interment in Harrisburg Cemetery.
Member United States House