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PRINTER'S NO. 1523
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
279
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY KINSEY, LEWIS, FREEMAN, V. BROWN, BIZZARRO,
TOOHIL, DUSH, SONNEY, BAKER, CHARLTON, PASHINSKI, SOLOMON,
MURT, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, DAVIS, BARRAR, JAMES, DiGIROLAMO,
WATSON, W. KELLER, VAZQUEZ, CALTAGIRONE, DRISCOLL, BULLOCK,
COX, QUIGLEY, McNEILL, CORR, MILLARD, O'BRIEN, DeLUCA,
SCHWEYER, PHILLIPS-HILL, GOODMAN, HENNESSEY, WARD, J. HARRIS,
BARBIN, MILNE, MARSICO AND RYAN, APRIL 24, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 24, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Remembering the distinguished military service and widely
respected citizenship of retired Air Force Major John L.
Harrison, Jr., a decorated Tuskegee Airman and longtime
resident of the City of Philadelphia's Society Hill
neighborhood who died on March 22, 2017, at 96 years of age.
WHEREAS, Born in Kansas on December 14, 1920, Major John L.
Harrison, Jr., graduated from the former Omaha University in
Nebraska; and
WHEREAS, Major Harrison's specialized flight training as a
command pilot began with a segregated military unit in Alabama,
where he was one of the original Tuskegee Airmen; and
WHEREAS, In his service with the Air Force and its
predecessor military branch, the Army Air Corps, Major Harrison
bravely met the challenges of combat and the continuing
challenges of discrimination; and
WHEREAS, Major Harrison attained distinction as the first
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African-American pilot and flight commander to regularly fly
transatlantic and transpacific flights for the United States
Military Air Transport Service; and
WHEREAS, Following retirement from the Air Force in 1963,
Major Harrison was a Peace Corps foreign service reserve officer
stationed in East Africa; and
WHEREAS, Major Harrison later served as an official in the
administrations of President Richard Nixon and Governor Dick
Thornburgh and as an executive with Girard Bank and Boeing
Aircraft; and
WHEREAS, Major Harrison further dedicated his energies to
Rotary International, the American Helicopter Society, the Urban
League of Philadelphia and the Society Hill Synagogue community;
and
WHEREAS, Major Harrison earned the Air Force Longevity
Service Award with four oak leaf clusters; and
WHEREAS, With his fellow surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Major
Harrison was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007; and
WHEREAS, Major Harrison's children, Joan, John, Richard and
Darryll, and his nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren
survive him; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives remember the
distinguished military service and widely respected citizenship
of retired Air Force Major John L. Harrison, Jr., a decorated
Tuskegee Airman and longtime resident of the City of
Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood who died on March 22,
2017, at 96 years of age.
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