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Robert Hanson Harrison

HARRISON, Robert Hanson, jurist, born in Maryland in 1745; died in Charles county, Maryland, 2 April, 1790. He was educated for the law, succeeded Joseph Reed as secretary to General Washington on 6 November, 1775, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and remained in the military family of the commanding general till the spring of 1781. He was appointed by congress in November, 1777, a member of the board of war, but declined the office. He became chief justice of the general court of Maryland on 10 March, 1781, but declined the appointment of judge of the United States supreme court in 1789.

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