Pat Harrison Tax Legislation

Byron Patton Harrison

Byron Patton Harrison (Pat Harrison) was an American politician from Mississippi who served as a U.S. Representative and then U.S. Senator. As Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he was a linchpin of the Roosevelt administration, leading the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935 and various tax increase bills. He funded the New Deal policies aimed at pulling the nation out of the Great Depression and established the wartime fiscal foundation for military spending ahead of World War II.

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Year	Byron Patton Harrison
1881	Birth of Byron Patton Harrison (Period: August 29, 1881, Location: Crystal Springs, Mississippi, United States)
1905	Marriage (Pat Harrison, Mary Edwina McInnis, Age: 23 years old, Period: January 19, 1905, Location: Leakesville, Mississippi)
1906	Assumption of Office as District Attorney for the Second Judicial District of Mississippi (Pat Harrison, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1906–1910, Location: Mississippi, United States)
1911	Assumption of Office as U.S. Representative (Pat Harrison, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1911–1919, Location: Washington, D.C.)
1914	World War I (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1914-1918, Location: Battlefields centered on Europe, United States)
1918	1918 Mississippi Senate Election (Pat Harrison, Age: 36 years old, Period: 1918, Location: Mississippi, United States)
1919	Assumption of Office as U.S. Senator (Pat Harrison, Age: 37 years old, Period: 1919–1941, Location: Washington, D.C.)
1924	1924 Democratic National Convention Keynote Speech (Pat Harrison, Age: 42 years old, Period: 1924, Location: New York City, New York) Keynote Speech at the 1924 Democratic National Convention (Pat Harrison, Age: 42 years old, Period: June–July 1924, Location: New York City, New York, Madison Square Garden)
1932	Support for Franklin D. Roosevelt (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1932, Location: Chicago, Illinois, Democratic National Convention)
1933	Assumption of Office as Senate Finance Committee Chairman (Pat Harrison, Age: 51 years old, Period: 1933–1941, Location: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate)
1935	Involvement in the Enactment of the Social Security Act (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1935, Location: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate)
1937	Conflict Surrounding the 1937 Democratic Senate Majority Leader Selection (Age: 55 years old, Period: January–July 1937, Location: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate) Defeat in the Democratic Majority Leader Selection (Age: 55 years old, Period: 1937, Location: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate)
1938	1938 Anti-Lynching Bill Filibuster (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1938, Location: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate)
1939	World War II (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Wartime Administration and Domestic Front of the United States) Selection as Most Influential Senator in 1939 (Pat Harrison, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1939, Location: Washington, D.C.)
1941	Enactment of the Lend-Lease Act in 1941 (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1941, Location: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate) Assumption of Office as President pro tempore of the Senate (Pat Harrison, Age: 59 years old, Period: January 6 – June 22, 1941, Location: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate) Death of Byron Patton Harrison (Age: 59 years old, Period: June 22, 1941)

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The Wilson Family	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Ellen Louise Axson Edith Bolling Galt Wilson James Woodrow
The Roosevelt Administration	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Cordell Hull Claude Augustus Swanson Jesse Holman Jones Robert Houghwout Jackson
Southern politician	George Carter Glass James Francis Byrnes Thomas Terry Connally Claude Denson Pepper Alben William Barkley Byron Patton Harrison John Nance Garner

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