{{Short description|American politician (1854–1926)}} {{for|the American labor lawyer|Robert O. Harris (lawyer)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Robert Orr Harris | image = RobertOHarris.jpg | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = {{ushr|MA|14|14th}} | term_start = March 4, 1911 | term_end = March 3, 1913 | preceded = [[Eugene Foss]] | succeeded = [[Edward Gilmore]] | order2 = | office2 = [[United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts#U.S. Attorneys|United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = 1921 | term_end2 = 1924 | preceded2 = [[Daniel J. Gallagher]] | succeeded2 = [[Harold P. Williams]] | order3 = | office3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | preceded3 = | succeeded3 = | office4 = | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | preceded4 = | succeeded4 = | office5 = | term_start5 = | preceded5 = | succeeded5 = | office6 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term6 = 1889 | birth_date = {{birth date|1854|11|8}} | birth_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1926|6|13|1854|11|8}} | death_place = [[Brockton, Massachusetts]], U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] | occupation = | profession = Lawyer | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}<!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000251. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->
'''Robert Orr Harris''' (November 8, 1854 – June 13, 1926) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]], son of [[Benjamin Winslow Harris]].
Born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], Harris attended the common schools and [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], [[Exeter, New Hampshire]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1877. He studied law. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1879 and practiced in Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts from 1879 to 1902. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1889. He served as district attorney for the southeastern district of Massachusetts 1891-1901. He served as associate judge of the superior court of Massachusetts from June 4, 1902, to March 1, 1911.
Harris was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[62nd United States Congress|Sixty-second]] Congress (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1912. He resumed the practice of law. He was appointed United States district attorney for the Massachusetts district by President Harding in 1921 and served until removed by President Coolidge in December 1924. He died in [[Brockton, Massachusetts]], June 13, 1926. He was interred in Central Cemetery, [[East Bridgewater, Massachusetts]].
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