Jeff Harris

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Jeff Harris (politician)

Jeff Harris (born October 7, 1964) is an attorney and a Missouri Democratic politician. He represented the 23rd District of Missouri in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2003–2009 and ran unsuccessfully for the office of attorney general in 2008. He served as Minority Floor Leader before giving up the post in order to focus more time on the attorney general race. He is married to Katherine Harris and resides in Columbia, Missouri.

Harris 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. Following Law School, Jeff practiced in the litigation department of Bryan Cave, LLP, in Kansas City, MO for nine years. In 2001, Jeff took an Assistant Attorney General position with the Missouri Attorney General's office.

He was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002, and won reelection in 2004 and 2006. The Columbia Tribune observed that Harris's leadership in the House "allowed him to be one of the chief spokesmen against the Republican majority."

Jeff Harris (baseball)

Jeffrey Austin Harris (born July 4, 1974 in Alameda, California) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently the pitching coach for the Lake County Captains in the Cleveland Indians organization. He batted and threw right-handed.

When Harris debuted with the Seattle Mariners on August 2, 2005, he was 31 years of age. This was unusually old for a major league rookie, and was due to his meandering career. Harris, who has done construction jobs, plumbing and landscaping during offseasons, spent six years in the Minnesota Twins organization before being released in 2000, then played three years for the Chico Heat of California in the independent Western Baseball League. From there, Harris tried, but failed to make a team in Taiwan, and bounced to China in 2003, when the SARS epidemic forced him to leave and go back to North America where he played for the Quebec Capitales of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball. The Mariners found Harris playing for the Capitales and signed him in June 2005.