Katherine HARRIS, Congress, FL (1957)

HARRIS Katherine , a Representative from Florida; born in Key West, Monroe County, Fla., April 5, 1957; attended University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 1978; B.A., Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., 1979; M.P.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1996; real estate broker; member of the Florida state senate, 1994-1998; Florida secretary of state, 1999-2002; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Eighth Congress and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2003-January 3, 2007); not a candidate for reelection, but was an unsuccessful candidate to the United States Senate in 2006.

Bibliography

"Katherine Harris" in Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2006.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present