Harris, Wiley P.

Flourished: Mississippi

Harris was receiver of public money in Columbus, Mississippi, during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations. In 1839, an investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives determined that he was guilty of defalcation to the sum of $109,000.

U.S. House. Report of the Committee of Investigation, Chosen by Ballot in the House of Representatives, January 17 and 19, 1839, on the Subject of the Defalcations of Samuel Swartwout and others, and the Correctness of the Returns of Collectors and Receivers of Public Money; Also the Report of the Minority of the Committee (Washington, DC: Thomas Allen, 1839), 167-84.