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John F. Harris

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John F. Harris (c. 1830 – August 20, 1913) was an African-American lawyer and politician from Greenville, Mississippi. In the mid- and late-1880s he was a member of the Greenville city council and in 1890 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives.

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