Fred Harris, Former US Senator From Oklahoma and Presidential Hopeful, Dies at 94

Fred Harris, Former US Senator From Oklahoma and Presidential Hopeful, Dies at 94
Sen. Fred R. Harris (D-Okla.) holds a copy of the report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders as he and two other members of the commission discuss the study on the television-radio program "Issues and Answers" in Washington on March 3, 1968. Bob Daugherty /AP Photo
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Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.

Harris’s wife, Margaret Elliston, confirmed his death to The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear where he died, but he had lived in New Mexico since 1976 and was a resident of Corrales at the time of his death.