Harris Wofford

Harris Llewellyn Wofford Jr. was an American attorney, civil rights activist, and Democratic Party politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1995. A noted advocate of national service and volunteering, Wofford was also the fifth president of Bryn Mawr College from 1970 to 1978, served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party in 1986 and also as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry in the cabinet of Governor Robert P. Casey from 1987 to 1991, and was a surrogate for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He introduced Obama in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center before Obama's speech on race in America, "A More Perfect Union".

9 April 1926

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Born on the same birth day (9 April): Bill Leonard (journalist) • Charles Proteus Steinmetz • Curly Lambeau • Demi Vermeulen • Drew Shafer • Frank King (cartoonist) • Hans-Joachim Reske • Iain Duncan Smith • Jaak Aab • Joe Scarborough • Keshia Knight Pulliam • Kyle Peterson • Margaret Peterson Haddix • Paul Willis (actor) • Paula Nenette Pepin • René Burri • Sam Harris • Stephen Paddock • Thomas Johann Seebeck • Viktor Chernomyrdin

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