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John Quincey Harris
John
Quincey
Harris
was a
British
Whig
politician
.
Harris was
elected
a Whig
Member of Parliament
for
Newcastle-under-Lyme
at the
1841 general election
but was unseated
via
election petition
on
11 May
1842
due to
bribery
by his
agent
. While he
stood
again at the
resulting by-election
, and topped the
poll
, he was again unseated
by election
petition
due to bribery, and his
Conservative
rival
John Campbell Colquhoun
was
declared
elected in his place.