# Harry Cage

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{{Short description|American judge}}
{{infobox officeholder
|name=Harry Cage
|state=[Mississippi](/source/Mississippi)
|district={{ushr|MS|AL|at-large}}
|term_start=March 4, 1833
|term_end=March 3, 1835
|preceded=''District created''
|successor=[David C. Dickson](/source/David_C._Dickson_(Mississippi_politician))
|office2=Justice of the [Supreme Court of Mississippi](/source/Supreme_Court_of_Mississippi)
|term_start2=1827
|term_end2=1832
|successor2=[George W. Smyth](/source/George_W._Smyth)
|birth_name=Henry Cage
|birth_date={{birth date|1795|4|5}}
|birth_place=[Sumner County, Tennessee](/source/Sumner_County%2C_Tennessee), U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1858|12|31|1795|4|5}}
|death_place=[New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans), [Louisiana](/source/Louisiana), U.S.
|resting_place=[Mississippi](/source/Mississippi), U.S.
|party=[Jacksonian](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party)
|spouse=Catharine N. Stewart
|relatives=[Harry T. Hays](/source/Harry_T._Hays) (nephew)<br>[John Coffee Hays](/source/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](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from [Mississippi](/source/Mississippi) from 1833 to 1835.

== Biography ==
Born at Cages Bend of the [Cumberland River](/source/Cumberland_River), [Sumner County, Tennessee](/source/Sumner_County%2C_Tennessee), he moved to [Wilkinson County, Mississippi](/source/Wilkinson_County%2C_Mississippi), in early youth.  He studied law and was [admitted to the bar](/source/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_United_States) and commenced practice in [Woodville, Mississippi](/source/Woodville%2C_Mississippi).  Harry married Catharine N. Stewart (1804&ndash;1829), the fourth child of Lieutenant Governor [Duncan Stewart](/source/Duncan_Stewart_(Mississippi_politician)). He served as judge of the [Supreme Court of Mississippi](/source/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](/source/Horace_W._Fuller), ed., ''[The Green Bag](/source/The_Green_Bag_(1889%E2%80%931914))'', 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](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party) to the [Twenty-third](/source/23rd_United_States_Congress) 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](/source/Terrebonne_Parish%2C_Louisiana), near the town of [Houma](/source/Houma%2C_Louisiana), in [Louisiana](/source/Louisiana).<ref name="Green Bag"/>

He died while visiting in [New Orleans](/source/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](/source/Harry_T._Hays), his nephew
*[John Coffee Hays](/source/John_Coffee_Hays), another nephew
*[List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi](/source/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Mississippi)

==References==
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*{{CongBio|C000018}}

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|state=Mississippi
|district=AL
|before=''Seat created''
|after=[David Dickson](/source/David_Dickson_(politician))
|years=March 4, 1833{{spaced ndash}}March 3, 1835
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{{succession box
|title=[Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi](/source/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Mississippi)
|before=
|after=[George W. Smyth](/source/George_W._Smyth_(Mississippi_judge))
|years=1827–1832}}
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Category:1795 births
Category:1859 deaths
Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Category:Jacksonian United States representatives from Mississippi
Category:19th-century United States representatives

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