Francis Burton Harrison (1873-1957)

He was the U.S. Congressman who in 1914 introduced the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, before which drugs like heroin and cocaine were freely available at any drug store across America. He was married six times: In 1900, he married the heiress Mary Crocker and had two daughters with her (Virginia and Barbara) before she was killed in a car crash. In 1907, he married Mabel Judson and had three children (Burton Norvell Harrison II, Dolly Harrison, and Randolph Burton Harrison). In 1919, he married the 18-year old Elizabeth Wrentham and had three further children (Kiko, Geoffrey and Verna Harrison). They divorced in 1927 and immediately afterwards he married her younger sister, Margaret Wrentham, who he divorced in 1933. They had one son, Norvell, who was killed in a car accident aged fourteen in 1941 and weeks later Margaret shot herself. In 1935, he was married in Alexandria, Egypt, to an English divorcee, Mrs Doria (Lee) Batchelor, by whom he had one daughter, Ursula. In 1949, he married his last wife, Maria Teresa Larrucea, from Spain. They had no children and the marriage ended with his death.