Raymond Harris

51st President of the United Federation Raymond Harris
Raymond Harris' official portrait, 2021
President of the United Federation of Merillia
Incumbent
Assumed office April 20 2022
Deputy	Lawrence Baldwin
Preceded by	Cameron Peterson
Governor of Oricuaro
In office January 30 2013 – March 12 2017
Preceded by	Rex Reid
Member of the Oricuaro State Senate
In office May 16 2005 – October 31 2009
Preceded by	Umberto Fafani
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	Raymond Buchanan Harris (1971-05-22) 22 May 1971 Saint Louis, Oricuaro, United Federation of Merillia
Political party	Suffrages Party
Spouse(s)	Kayleigh Evans (m. 2000; div. 2005) Bella Combs (m. 2011)
Children	5
Alma mater	University of San Siro

Raymond Buchanan Harris Jr. (born 22 May, 1971) is a Merillian politician who is the 51st and current President of the United Federation. A member of the Suffrages Party, prior to his presidency he served on the Oricuaro State Senate as well as being the senator of Oricuaro from 2013 to 2017.

Harris was born and raised in Saint Louis, in the state of Oricuaro, United Federation of Merillia, he graduated from the UF Naval Academy aged 22 (1993) and joined the UF Navy not long after, serving in the submarine corps. Once he came back from his service, he worked on his family's rural farm in Oricuaro. He went on to display his opposition to racial inequality, supporting the Muanbian Rights Movement in the 1990s, becoming a well-known activist within the Suffrages Party. He went on to serve on the Oricuaro State Senate to 2005 to 2009 and then as Governor of Oricuaro from 2013 to 2017. Despite being a dark horse, not being too well-known outside of the state of Oricuaro, Harris won the 2022 Presidential Election, narrowly beating off Freedom Party rival Thomas Mason.

So far in his presidency, Harris has placed his focus on reforming the health system, adding a slight extension to Cameron Peterson's tax cuts and trying to put an end to the UF Military presence in Hausminia. He has also stabilised UF relations with Yerezh. He has improved the economy following the United Federation Economic Crisis of the late 2010s.

Early Life

Raymond Buchanan Harris Jr. was born 22 May, 1971, in Saint Louis, Oricuaro at the Lillian. G Hamilton youth hospital, where his mother worked at the time as a training nurse. He was the eldest and only child of Allie Mcdowell and Raymond Buchanan Harris Sr. Harris is a direct descendent of Anglican settler Mayson Harris who was a first generation UF settler in 1533. His family, for numerous generations, lived as livestock farmers in the Querenito state.