Frank Harrison | |
Image Name: | Frank G. Harrison.jpg |
State: | Pennsylvania |
District: | 11th |
Term Start: | January 3, 1983 |
Term End: | January 3, 1985 |
Preceded: | James L. Nelligan |
Succeeded: | Paul Kanjorski |
Party: | Democratic |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1940 |
Death Place: | Galveston, Texas |
Alma Mater: | Harvard Law School |
Frank Girard Harrison (February 2, 1940 – June 1, 2009) was a one-term Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Harrison was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He graduated from his hometown's King's College in 1961, and Harvard Law School in 1964. Harrison served in the United States Air Force as a captain from 1966 to 1969. He was a college professor at Trinity University from 1969 to 1982.
Harrison was elected in 1982 as a Democrat to the 98th United States Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1984.
He was a visiting scholar in residence at King's College in Wilkes-Barre. He died in Galveston, Texas, aged 69.[1]
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