William Harrison Jr. (c. 1750 – July 21, 1789) was an American planter from Charles County, Maryland. He was a delegate for Maryland in the

Continental Congress The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America, and the newly declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War. ...

of 1786 and 1787. Harrison was an active revolutionary in Charles County. He served in the local militia, and as a representative in 1775 to the state's revolutionary assembly, the Annapolis Convention. In 1778 he was named as a justice of the peace for Charles County, and reappointed regularly until 1785.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, William Jr. 1789 deaths Continental Congressmen from Maryland 18th-century American politicians Maryland militiamen in the American Revolution Year of birth uncertain