Scope and Content Note

The collection is divided into twenty-one series. Materials include biographical data, correspondence, legislative and committee materials, personal and office financial records, speeches, press releases, posters, audio and video tapes, and ephemera.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, legislative bills, reports and other materials comprising, for the most part, Oren Harris' Congressional files. Harris, a native of Hempstead County, Arkansas, represented the fourth Congressional district of Arkansas in the 77th-89th United States Congresses, from January 3, 1941 until his resignation February 2, 1966 to accept appointment as United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas. For 23 years a member of the House Committee...