Harrison County

Harrison County is a county of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 65,631. It is named for Jonas Harrison, a lawyer and Texas revolutionary. It is located in the Ark-La-Tex region. The seat of the county is Marshall. Harrison County is part of the Marshall Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Longview–Marshall Combined Statistical Area. Harrison County, formerly heavily Democratic, is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Bryan Hughes, a lawyer in Mineola. American settlement began in present-day Harrison County during the 1830s. In 1835, the Mexican authorities granted a dozen land grants to Americans. After the Texas Revolution, the Congress of the Texas Republic...