# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harris-wofford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:02:19.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harris-wofford"
name: "Harris Wofford"
slug: "harris-wofford"
description: "Harris Llewellyn Wofford Jr. was an American attorney, civil rights activist, and Democratic Party politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1995. A noted advocate of national service and volunteering, Wofford was also the fifth president of Bryn Mawr College from 1970 to 1978, served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party in 1986, served as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry in the cabinet of Governor Bob Casey Sr. from 1987 to 1991, and was a surrogate for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He introduced Obama in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center before Obama's speech on race in America, \"A More Perfect Union.\""
tagline: "American politician (1926-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harriswofford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-04-09"
deathDate: "2019-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump