Fairfax Harrison

Fairfax Harrison was an American lawyer, businessman, and writer. The son of the secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Harrison studied law at Yale University and Columbia University before becoming a lawyer for the Southern Railway Company in 1896. By 1906 he was Southerns vicepresident of finance, and in 1907 he helped secure funding to keep the company solvent. In 1913 he was elected president of Southern, where he instituted a number of reforms in the way the company operated.

Harrison was born in New York City on March 13, 1869, to Burton Harrison and Constance Cary Harrison. Burton had served as private secretary to Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, and Constance was a novelist. Harrisons brother, Francis Burton Harrison, was GovernorGeneral of the Philippines from 1913 to 1921. Another brother was Archibald, and all three brothers attended Yale University. Fairfax Harrison graduated from Yale in 1890 he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. He went on to attend Columbia University, earning a Masters in Arts.

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