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Stanford Parris (Stanford Elmer Parris) was born on 9 September, 1929 in Champaign, Illinois, U.S., is an American politician. Discover Stanford Parris's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Stanford Elmer Parris
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Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 9 September, 1929
Birthday 9 September
Birthplace Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 2010
Died Place Mathews County, Virginia, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1929

Stanford Elmer Parris (September 9, 1929 – March 27, 2010) was an American lawyer and Republican politician.

He represented Virginia's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for six two year terms.

He served in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Virginia House of Delegates, and also as Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth.

He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, earning several medals.

Parris was born in Champaign, Illinois and educated in the public schools there.

1950

He earned a B.S. at University of Illinois (1950), and an LL.B. at the George Washington University (1958) while working as a doorkeeper at the United States Senate.

He was a U.S. Air Force F-84 Thunderjet jet fighter aircraft pilot in the Korean War, and was shot down once and rescued.

His military decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross with cluster, Air Medal with clusters, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation (Korea), and Presidential Unit Citation (United States).

Following his discharge from the military, Parris worked briefly as an airline pilot, before starting law school.

1958

He was admitted to the bar in 1958, and set up a private law practice in Alexandria, Virginia.

Parris was president of a Chrysler dealership in Woodbridge, Virginia and the Flying Circus Aerodrome, an air show.

1964

Parris was elected to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and served one term (1964–1967).

1969

In 1969, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates and served from April 11, 1969, to November 21, 1972.

1970

He also served a term as Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth in the late 1970s.

1972

Nonetheless, he was elected in 1972 to the United States House of Representatives, but lost his 1974 reelection bid to Democrat Herb Harris in the post-Watergate scandal.

1980

However, in the 1980 House elections, he defeated Harris by 1,090 votes.

1982

Parris thought about running for the United States Senate in 1982 after Harry F. Byrd Jr. retired, but opted to run for reelection to the House after Harris sought to regain his old seat.

He defeated Harris by 1,600 votes, spending $700,000 in Virginia's most expensive congressional campaign up to that point.

1984

He defeated State Senator Dick Saslaw with somewhat less difficulty in 1984, and easily defeated underfunded Democrats in 1986 and 1988.

1985

He sought his party's nomination for the 1985 election of Governor of Virginia, but withdrew in May.

1989

In 1989, Parris again ran for Governor of Virginia.

He lost in the Republican primary to former Attorney General Marshall Coleman and former United States Senator Paul S. Trible.

1990

Economic woes and a federal budget stalemate contributed to his 1990 election loss to then Alexandria mayor James P. Moran Jr. Parris was also known for introducing a bill during his first term which prohibited the National Football League from imposing television blackouts of non-sold-out games.

His position as the ranking Republican member of the House District Committee often put him at odds with the city government of the District of Columbia, and resulted in frequent quarreling with the mayor, Marion Barry.

However, in 1990, he lost to Alexandria mayor Jim Moran by seven points in what is still considered an upset.

During the campaign, Parris, referring to the issue of the Gulf War, said, "The only three people I know who support Saddam Hussein's position are Moammar Gadhafi, Yasser Arafat, and Jim Moran."

Moran angrily responded by saying that Parris was "a deceitful, fatuous jerk", and that he wanted "to break his nose".

Moran's well-financed campaign also focused on Parris' opposition to abortion.

Moran upset Parris, winning by 7.1 percent.

1991

President George H. W. Bush appointed him to a seven-year term as President of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation in 1991, weeks after he left Congress.

He resigned four years later to run for a seat in the Virginia Senate.

His primary residence after leaving Congress was in Melbourne, Florida; but he also owned property in Mathews County, Virginia.

1993

In the 93rd Congress, Parris was a member of the House Committee on Science and Technology, its subcommittees on Aeronautics and Space Technology, Science, Research, and Development and Energy.

2010

Stanford Parris died from heart disease on March 27, 2010, at his home in Mathews County in eastern Virginia.

He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Upon the death of Parris, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell said in a statement that Parris "played major leadership roles" in endeavors as varied as the establishment of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Old Town Alexandria to flood control and closing the District of Columbia's former Lorton Reformatory in Fairfax County, and that "He used his time on this Earth to help others, and to effectively advance the ideas and principles in which he believed."

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During that time he made a controversial comment when he joked that the 14th Street Bridge between Virginia and Washington, DC was the "longest in the world" because it "stretches from Northern Virginia to Africa."