{{Short description|American judge}} {{infobox officeholder |name=Harry Cage |state=Mississippi |district={{ushr|MS|AL|at-large}} |term_start=March 4, 1833 |term_end=March 3, 1835 |preceded=''District created'' |successor=David C. Dickson |office2=Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi |term_start2=1827 |term_end2=1832 |successor2=George W. Smyth |birth_name=Henry Cage |birth_date={{birth date|1795|4|5}} |birth_place=Sumner County, Tennessee, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1858|12|31|1795|4|5}} |death_place=New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |resting_place=Mississippi, U.S. |party=Jacksonian |spouse=Catharine N. Stewart |relatives=Harry T. Hays (nephew)<br>John Coffee Hays (nephew) |profession=Politician, lawyer, judge }} '''Henry Cage''' (April 5, 1795 – December 31, 1858) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1833 to 1835.

== Biography == Born at Cages Bend of the Cumberland River, Sumner County, Tennessee, he moved to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in early youth. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodville, Mississippi. Harry married Catharine N. Stewart (1804&ndash;1829), the fourth child of Lieutenant Governor Duncan Stewart. He served as judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, from 1829 to 1832.<ref name="Green Bag">Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., ''The Green Bag'', Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.</ref><ref>Franklin Lafayette Riley, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KhAqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA380 School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools]'' (1915), p.&nbsp;380-82.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rowland |first=Dunbar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REwTAAAAYAAJ |title=Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form |date=1907 |publisher=Southern Historical Publishing Association |pages=733 |language=en}}</ref>

=== Congress === Cage was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835).

=== Retirement and death === He retired from the practice of law and settled on Woodlawn plantation in the parish of Terrebonne, near the town of Houma, in Louisiana.<ref name="Green Bag"/>

He died while visiting in New Orleans, on December 31, 1858. His remains were interred in the cemetery of the Stewart family in Mississippi.{{sfn|United States Congress|C000018}}

==See also== *Harry T. Hays, his nephew *John Coffee Hays, another nephew *List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi

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