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Harry Cage

American judge

Summary

American judge

Field	Value
name	Harry Cage
state	Mississippi
district
term_start	March 4, 1833
term_end	March 3, 1885
preceded	District created
successor	David C. Dickson
office2	Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
term_start2	1827
term_end2	1832
successor2	George W. Smyth
birth_name	Henry Cage
birth_date
birth_place	Sumner County, Tennessee, U.S.
death_date
death_place	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
resting_place	Mississippi, U.S.
party	Jacksonian
spouse	Catharine N. Stewart
relatives	Harry T. Hays (nephew)
John Coffee Hays (nephew)
profession	Politician, lawyer, judge

John Coffee Hays (nephew) Henry Cage (April 5, 1795 – December 31, 1858) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1833 to 1835.

Biography

Born at Cages Bend of the Cumberland River, Sumner County, Tennessee, he moved to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in early youth. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodville, Mississippi. Harry married Catharine N. Stewart (1804–1829), the fourth child of Lieutenant Governor Duncan Stewart. He served as judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, from 1829 to 1832.

Congress

Cage was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835).

Retirement and death

He retired from the practice of law and settled on Woodlawn plantation in the parish of Terrebonne, near the town of Houma, in Louisiana.

He died while visiting in New Orleans, on December 31, 1858. His remains were interred in the cemetery of the Stewart family in Mississippi.

References

Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in [[Horace W. Fuller]], ed., ''[[The Green Bag (1889–1914). The Green Bag]]'', Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.
Franklin Lafayette Riley, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KhAqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA380 School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools]'' (1915), p. 380-82.
Rowland, Dunbar. (1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form". Southern Historical Publishing Association.

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