State Delegate: | Virginia |
District: | 58th |
Term Start: | January 14, 1998 |
Term End: | January 9, 2002 |
Preceded: | Peter T. Way |
Succeeded: | Rob Bell |
Birth Name: | Paul Clinton Harris |
Birth Date: | 31 March 1964 |
Birth Place: | Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Alma Mater: | Hampton University |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | United States Army |
Serviceyears: | 1986–1990 |
Rank: | First lieutenant |
Unit: | Military Intelligence Corps |
Paul Clinton Harris (born March 31, 1964[1]) is a former Delegate of Albemarle County, Virginia, in the Virginia House of Delegates.[2]
He graduated from Hampton University in 1986 with a B.A. in political science. Harris served as a 1st lieutenant in military intelligence from 1986 to 1990. He graduated from George Washington University in 1995 with a J.D.[1]
He became the first African American Republican elected to the House of Delegates since Reconstruction in the 1997 legislative elections. He won re-election in 1999. In 2001, he began working for the United States Department of Justice.[2]
Virginia Republican party leaders floated Harris as a possible successor to Republican Party Chairman Jeff Frederick in March 2009.[2]