Harley O. Staggers, Jr.

Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. ( born February 22, 1951 in Washington DC) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 1993 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harley Staggers is the son of longtime Congressman Harley Staggers Orrin from West Virginia. The younger Staggers attended until 1969 Keyser High School. Then he studied until 1974 at Harvard University. After studying law at West Virginia University in Morgantown and its made ​​in 1977 admitted to the bar he began working as a Deputy Attorney General in Charleston (West Virginia).

Staggers joined the Democratic Party. In 1976 he was in the organizing committee of the Democratic National Convention. Between 1980 and 1982 he was a member of the Senate of West Virginia. In 1982, he was elected in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Cleve Benedict of the Republican Party on January 3, 1983. In Congress Staggers took a seat, which his father had held 1949-1981. After four elections he was his mandate to exercise until 3 January 1993. For the elections of 1992 he was not nominated for a reorganization of electoral districts by his party for another term. During his time in Congress, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution in 1992 discussed and approved.

Today, Harley Staggers collaborates with his brother as a lawyer in Keyser.