Richard F. Harless

Richard Fielding Harless ( born August 6, 1905 in Kelsey, Upshur County, Texas, † November 24, 1970 in Phoenix, Arizona ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1949 he represented the second electoral district of the State of Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and political rise

In 1917 Richard Harless came to Thatcher, Arizona. There he attended the public schools, including the high school. Then he studied until 1928 at the University of Arizona in Tucson. From 1928 to 1930 Richard Harless worked as a school teacher in Marana. He then studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Arizona law. In 1933 he was admitted to the bar. He then began working in Phoenix in this profession.

Political rise

In 1935 Harless was deputy of the municipal counsel for the city of Phoenix and 1936 Deputy Attorney General of Arizona. Between 1938 and 1942 he was district attorney in Maricopa County.

As a member of the Democratic Party Richard Harless was elected in the midterm elections of 1942 in the U.S. House of Representatives. This year for the first time subjected to two deputies from Arizona in the Congress; that was a result of the census of 1940. Harless Richard represented the second constituency, represented while John R. Murdock also the first district in Washington. Harless exercised this mandate from after two elections between January 1943 and January 3, 1949 3. In 1948 he abandoned a renewed bid. Instead, he ran for governor of Arizona. This candidacy but failed already in the primaries of his party, which nominated the subsequent election winner Dan Garvey. In 1954, he missed his party's nomination for a return to Congress. He received this nomination in 1960, but then he lost to his Republican opponent. After his time in the House of Representatives Richard Harless worked as a lawyer. He died in November 1970 in Phoenix.

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