Bernard Harper
A former Augusta commissioner discovered useless in a Midland Valley condo on Wednesday seemingly died of pure causes, Aiken County’s coroner stated.
Bernard E. Harper, 73, was pronounced useless at 6:50 p.m., lower than an hour after the coroner’s workplace was summoned to Kalmia Condo Drive in Graniteville, S.C. An “prolonged member of the family” discovered Harper unresponsive, in accordance with Aiken County Coroner Darryl Ables.
Rising up in Jersey Metropolis, N.J., Harper lived within the Augusta space for greater than 30 years, working within the fields of lodge administration, eldercare and industrial cleansing.
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Harper ran for the District 4 seat on the Richmond County Board of Schooling in 1996 and 2000 however misplaced each occasions to Andrew Jefferson. He additionally served from 2000 to 2006 on the Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority. In 2005, Harper misplaced a four-way race for the Augusta Commision Tremendous District 9 seat.
Harper narrowly defeated former Commissioner Alvin Mason in 2006 to finish the unexpired months of Richard Colclough’s District 4 time period, which led to 2007. A yr later, Mason beat Harper to serve the subsequent full four-year time period. Mason defeated Harper once more for the seat in 2010.
In 2018, Harper introduced his intention to fill Jefferson’s unexpired District 5 time period on the Augusta Fee, however the seat as a substitute went to Bobby Williams in a March 2019 particular election.
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