Francis Burton Harrison was an American statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and was appointed GovernorGeneral of the Philippines by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. Harrison was a prominent adviser to the president of the Philippine Commonwealth, as well as the next four Presidents of the Republic of the Philippines. He is the only former GovernorGeneral of the Philippines to be awarded Philippine citizenship.
Harrison was born in New York City, to Burton Harrison, a lawyer and private secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Constance Cary Harrison, novelist and social arbiter. Through his mother, Harrison was greatgrandson of Virginiaplanter, Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Through Fairfax in birth and marriage, Harrison was also relative to United States founding fathers Gouverneur Morris , Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, the Randolphs, the Ishams, and the Carters.
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