Wofford, Harris

LC control no.	n 80025834
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Wofford, Harris *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1926-04-09
Death date	2019-01-21
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Field of activity	Law United States--Politics and government Civil rights Education, Higher National service
Affiliation	Corporation for National and Community Service (U.S.) United States. Congress. Senate Americorps (U.S.) State University of New York at Old Westbury Bryn Mawr College Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Legislators Civil rights workers Executives College presidents
Found in	Author's It's up to us ... 1946. NUCMC data from John F. Kennedy Libr. for His White House staff files, 1960-1962 (Wofford, Harris (Llewellyn), 1926- ; lawyer; asst. to Sen. John F. Kennedy; spec. asst. to pres. for civil rights, 1961-1962) U.S. Cong. Senate. Comm. on Labor and Human Resources. Nomination, hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources ... 1995: t.p. (Harris Wofford; to be chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service) p. 2 (former senator; was in President Kennedy's administration) Cong. dir., 1993/1994: p. 249 (Pennsylvania, senators; Harris Wofford; b. Apr. 9, 1926; special assistant to President Kennedy, 1960-62) Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 22, 2019 (Harris Wofford, a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, university president and lifelong crusader for civil rights, died Jan. 21 [2019] in Washington. He was 92. In 1991, he defeated Dick Thornburgh to become Pennsylvania's first Democratic senator in more than 20 years. Harris Llewellyn Wofford Jr. was born in New York City on April 9, 1926. From 1966 to 1970, Mr. Wofford served as president of an experimental branch of the State University of New York at Old Westbury on Long Island. He spent the next eight years leading Bryn Mawr as the second male president since the women's college was founded in 1885. In 1991, he was Pennsylvania's secretary of labor and industry when Gov. Robert P. Casey Sr. appointed him to fill the vacancy created by the death of Sen. John Heinz. Three years later, he lost his seat to Rep. Rick Santorum. After leaving office, Mr. Wofford served six years as chief executive of AmeriCorps, the national community service program that was one of his chief legislative achievements as senator)
Associated language	eng