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Richard Jason Satawk "R. J." Harris (born November 16, 1972) is an United States Army National Guard warrant officer, politician, law student and former Air Traffic Controller. He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States. In 2010, he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Tom Cole for the Republican Party nomination in the primary election for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district. He ran as an independent candidate for the same congressional seat in 2012. On August 3, 2013, on his Facebook page, he announced that he would be running for the 2014 gubernatorial election in Oklahoma as a Democrat in order to advance the libertarian cause in a way that transcends traditional party lines.〔Brewer, Graham Lee (November 5, 2013)("Democratic candidate files to run for Oklahoma governor against Mary Fallin" ), NewsOK〕 Harris withdrew his candidacy in that race on January 14, 2014. ==Background== Harris was born November 16, 1972. His father, Richard Michael Settainte (White Bear) Harris, is a physician for the Kiowa people.〔 His parents split while he was still young, and he settled with his mother, Deborah Jill in Arizona, where she remarried and renamed him Jason Sam Barnes after his stepfather. In the early 1990s, Barnes married Jennifer Friend, with whom he has five children. After learning about his name change early in life, Barnes decided to adopt his birth name and permanently moved to Oklahoma, where he currently resides. His wife and children changed their names as well.〔 Harris has worked as an air traffic control platoon leader and officer the Army National Guard since 1989〔 and opened two gaming stores in Gilbert, Arizona, which closed in 2001, a fact Harris attributes to the post-9/11 recession. As a result, he was forced to file for bankruptcy, which was cleared by 2004.〔 Harris has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Oklahoma, and has studied law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「R. J. Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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