Harris Blake | |
State Senate: | North Carolina |
State: | North Carolina |
Term Start: | January 1, 2003 |
Term End: | January 1, 2013 |
Predecessor: | Constituency established |
Successor: | Jerry Tillman (Redistricting) |
Birth Date: | 3 November 1929 |
Party: | Republican |
Harris Durham Blake (November 3, 1929 - June 9, 2014) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-second Senate district, which included constituents in Harnett, Lee and Moore counties.[1] He was also the Republican nominee for North Carolina Secretary of State in 2000.[2]
Born in Jackson Springs, North Carolina, Blake went to Elon University. He served on the Moore County, North Carolina School Board.[3] Blake, a real estate agent from Pinehurst, North Carolina, served five terms in the North Carolina state Senate and chose to retire in 2012 and not seek a sixth term. He was deputy President pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate during his final two-year term. He died at his home in Moore County on June 9, 2014, at the age of 84.