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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OklahomaHARRIS, Fred Roy
(1930—)
Senate Years of Service:
1964-1973
Party:
Democrat
HARRIS, Fred Roy, a Senator from Oklahoma; born in Walters, Cotton County, Okla., November 13, 1930; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1952 and from the law school in 1954; admitted to the bar in 1954 and began to practice law in Lawton, Okla.; member, State senate 1956-1964; unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in 1962; elected in a special election on November 3,1964, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert S. Kerr for the term ending January 3, 1967; reelected in 1966 and served from November 4, 1964, to January 2, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection in 1972; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976; professor of political science, University of New Mexico; author; is a resident of Corrales, N.Mex.
Bibliography
Harris, Fred. Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; Harris, Fred. Potomac Fever
. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.
Harris, Fred R. Alarms and Hopes: A Personal Journey, a Personal View
. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
___. America’s Democracy: The Ideal and the Reality
. 1980. 3d. ed. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1986.
___. Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
___. The New Populism
. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973.
___. Now Is The Time: A New Populist Call to Action
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
___. “Political Science and the Proposal for a National Social Science Foundation.” American Political Science Review
61 (December 1967): 1088-95.
___. Potomac Fever
. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977.
___, ed. Readings on the Body Politic
. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1987.
___, ed. Social Science and National Policy
. 1970. 2d ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1973. Includes Harris’s article, “A Strategy for Social Sciences.”
Harris, Fred R., and Paul L. Hain. America’s Legislative Process: Congress and the States
. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1983.
Harris, Fred R., Randy Roberts, and Margaret S. Elliston. Understanding American Government
. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., Little, Brown College Division, 1988.
Harris, Fred R., and Gary Wasserman. America’s Government
. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990.
Harris, Fred R., and Roger Wilkins, eds. Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. Includes Harris’s article, ”The Kerner Report.”
Lowitt, Richard. Fred Harris: His Journey from Liberalism to Populism
. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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