Harley Orrin Staggers
| Harley Orrin Staggers | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from West Virginia's 2nd district |
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In office January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Melvin C. Snyder |
| Succeeded by | Cleve Benedict |
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| Born |
August 3, 1907 Keyser, West Virginia |
| Died | August 20, 1991 (aged 84) Cumberland, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Casey Staggers |
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Margaret Anne Staggers Mary Kaye Staggers Frances Susan Tasker Elizabeth Ellen Shank Harley O. Staggers Jr. Daniel Staggers |
| Alma mater | Emory and Henry College |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Religion | Methodist |
Harley Orrin Staggers Sr. (August 3, 1907 – August 20, 1991) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from West Virginia (2nd District) from 1949 to 1981.
Staggers was born on August 3, 1907 in Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia, and graduated from Emory and Henry College in 1931 and did graduate work at Duke University.
Staggers served as sheriff of Mineral County from 1937 to 1941. He served as a navigator in the U.S. Naval Air Corps during World War II. In 1948, Staggers was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. He was reelected to another 15 terms in the congress, serving until his retirement in 1981. For 16 years, from 1966 until his retirement, Staggers chaired the powerful House Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (Energy and Commerce), the longest uninterrupted tenure of any chairman of that committee in its over 200 year history (Staggers' successor, John Dingell, served for 14 years from 1981 until 1995 and again from 2007 until 2009). He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from West Virginia in 1960. He died in Cumberland, Maryland on August 20, 1991.
On June 10, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Nixon Administration could not block The New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. The next month, on July 12, 1971, Staggers ordered CBS News to hand over film not used in the documentary, Selling of the Pentagon.
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