Herbert Harris

Herbert Eugene Harris II ( born April 14, 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri ) is a former American politician. Between 1975 and 1981 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herbert Harris attended the public schools of his home. In the years 1944 and 1945, he graduated from Missouri Valley College and thereafter until 1946, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He then attended the Rockhurst College until 1948. After a subsequent law degree from the Georgetown University in Washington DC and his 1951 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Kansas City in this profession. In the same year he moved to the federal capital. He was co-founder and vice president of trade consulting firm Warner & Harris Inc. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1968 to 1974 he was a member of the District in Fairfax County, where he had since moved. At the same time he worked for the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. From 1970 to 1974 he was deputy chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the public transport in the metropolitan area of Washington DC operates.

In the congressional elections of 1974, Harris was elected the eighth electoral district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of the Republican Stanford Parris on January 3, 1975. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1981 three legislative periods. In 1980, he lost his predecessor Parris. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Herbert Harris practiced as a lawyer in the law firm Harris & Berg in Washington.