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Charles Oscar Harris

1852–1913

United States

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Charles Oscar Harris (August 5, 1852 – October 8, 1913) was an American public official and state legislator in Alabama. He was born August 5, 1852, in Tuskegee, Alabama (or Georgia) and studied at Oberlin College in Ohio and Howard University in Washington D.C. He returned to Alabama and served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1876 and 1877. He served as a Republican, and attended the Republican National Conventions as a delegate eights times.

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