About Claude Harris

HARRIS, Claude, Jr., a Representative from Alabama; born in Bessemer, Tuscaloosa County, Ala., June 29, 1940; B.S., University of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala., 1962; University of Alabama Law School, Birmingham, Ala., 1965; admitted to the Alabama state bar, 1965; assistant district attorney, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1965-1976; circuit judge, 1977-1985; Alabama Army ...

HARRIS, Claude, Jr., a Representative from Alabama; born in Bessemer, Tuscaloosa County, Ala., June 29, 1940; B.S., University of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala., 1962; University of Alabama Law School, Birmingham, Ala., 1965; admitted to the Alabama state bar, 1965; assistant district attorney, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1965-1976; circuit judge, 1977-1985; Alabama Army National Guard; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1993-1994; died on October 2, 1994, in Birmingham, Ala.; interment in Memory Hill Gardens, Tuscaloosa, Ala.