Harry CAGE, Congress, MS (1859)

CAGE, Harry, a Representative from Mississippi; born at Cages Bend of the Cumberland River, Sumner County, Tenn., birth date unknown; moved to Wilkinson County, Miss., in early youth; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodville, Miss.; judge of the supreme court of Mississippi,1829-1832; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); retired from the practice of law and settled on Woodlawn plantation in the parish of Terrebonne, near the town of Houma, in Louisiana; died while on a visit to New Orleans, La., in 1859; interment in the cemetery of the Stewart family in Wilkinson County, Miss.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present