Burton Harrison

Burton Norvell Harrison (July 14, 1838 – March 29, 1904), was a lawyer, American Democratic politician, and private secretary to Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis.

[1]: 90  Later that year he took a job at the University of Mississippi as an associate professor of mathematics and began to study law.

Feeling himself established, in November 1867 he married his sweetheart from his Richmond, Virginia, days, Constance Cary Harrison.

In 1880, Harrison attended the Democratic convention in Cincinnati where he opposed William Jennings Bryan.

In 1893 he declined President Grover Cleveland's offers of appointments as Assistant Secretary of State and ambassador to Italy.