Harley Orrin Staggers junior

Harley O. Staggers Jr. (1983)

Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. (born February 22, 1951 in Washington, DC ) is an American politician . Between 1983 and 1993 he represented the second constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harley Staggers is the son of longtime Congressman Harley Orrin Staggers of West Virginia. The younger Staggers attended Keyser High School until 1969 . He then studied at Harvard University until 1974 . After studying law at West Virginia University in Morgantown and being admitted to the bar in 1977, he began working as an assistant attorney general in Charleston, West Virginia.

Staggers joined the Democratic Party . In 1976 he served on the Organizing Committee of the Democratic National Convention . Between 1980 and 1982 he was a member of the West Virginia Senate . In 1982 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second district of West Virginia, where he succeeded Cleve Benedict of the Republican Party on January 3, 1983 . In Congress , Staggers took the seat his father held between 1949 and 1981. After four re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate until January 3, 1993. For the 1992 elections he was no longer nominated for a further term of office by his party after a reorganization of the electoral districts. During his time in Congress in 1992, the 27th Amendment was discussed and passed.

Today Harley Staggers works with his brother as a lawyer in Keyser .

Web links

• Harley Orrin Staggers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)