A man died and a chapter ended last week in U.S. political history. When Roosevelt II marched into power in 1933, marching with him came Tammany politicians, social planners, men of labor, liberals and the conservatives of the old South. Byron Patton Harrison was symbolic of that last, anomalous group.
Twenty-two years before, at the unripe age of 29, Pat Harrison had been elected to the House from his native Mississippi, after eight years had graduated into the Senate. The Republicans then ruled the roost, and Pat Harrison, better than any other, showed...
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