Jeff Harris (Missouri)

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Jeff Harris (born October 7, 1964) is an attorney and a Missouri Democratic politician. He used to serve as Minority Floor Leader in the Missouri House of Representatives until he gave up the post in order to focus more time on his campaign for Attorney General. He is married to Katherine Harris, and resides in Columbia, Missouri.

He was born in Columbia, and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1987, and from Cornell University with a J.D. in 1991. He was on the board of editors of the Cornell Law Review while at that school.

He is a member of the Missouri United Methodist Church, the Elks Club, the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, the Prevent Child Abuse Missouri Board, the Missouri Kidney Program Advisory Board, the Democratic Leadership Council, and the Commission on the Future of Higher Education.

He was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002, and won reelection in 2004.

He is currently running for the Democratic nomimation for Missouri Attorney General against fellow state Representative Margaret Donnelly, and State Senator Chris Koster, when Jay Nixon, the current Attorney General, will vacate the office in order to run for Governor.