Erika Harold
Erika Harold | |
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Miss America 2003 | |
Predecessor | Katie Harman |
Successor | Ericka Dunlap |
Political party | Republican |
Erika Natalie Louise Harold (born February 20, 1980) is an American attorney, politician, and former Miss America.
Harold was Miss Illinois 2002 and Miss America 2003. Her pageant platform was combating bullying. In 2014, she was a candidate in the Republican primary for the 13th Congressional District seat in the State of Illinois, ultimately losing the nomination to the incumbent, Rodney Davis.[1] In the 2018 election, she was the Republican nominee for Illinois Attorney General.[2]
Background and legal career
Harold was born in Urbana, Illinois. Her ethnicity includes Greek, German and English on her father's side; and on her mother's side, both Native American and African-American.[3]
She graduated from the
Pageants
She became
In the first week of her reign, she also adopted a secondary platform for
Politics
Harold is a
In May 2012, Harold was one of four finalists for the Republican nomination for Congress in Illinois's 13th district, a nomination selected by the Republican chairmen of the 14 counties covered by the 13th Congressional District, instead of a primary election.
2014 congressional campaign
On June 4, 2013, Harold announced she would run against Rep.
2018 campaign for Illinois attorney general
On August 15, 2017, Harold announced that she would seek the Republican nomination to be Illinois attorney general.[25] On March 20, 2018, she won the Republican nomination for attorney general garnering 59% of the vote in a two-way contest against Gary Grasso, a former mayor of Burr Ridge, IL, now a member of the DuPage County Board and a litigation attorney.[26] She lost the general election to Democrat Kwame Raoul garnering 43% of the vote to his 55%.
Electoral history
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Rodney L. Davis | 27,816 | 55 | |
Republican | Erika Harold | 20,951 | 41 | |
Republican | Michael Firsching
|
2,147 | 4 | |
Total votes | 50,914 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Erika Harold | 378,707 | 59.15 | |
Republican | Gary Grasso | 261,509 | 40.85 | |
Total votes | 640,216 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Kwame Raoul | 2,488,326 | 54.7 | ||
Republican | Erika Harold | 1,944,142 | 42.7 | ||
Libertarian | Bubba Harsy | 115,941 | 2.6 | ||
Total votes | 4,548,409 | 100.0 | |||
Democratic hold |
References
- ^ "Former Miss America Erika Harold joins Congressional race in Illinois". The Washington Times. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- ^ ABC 7 News. "Erika Harold wins GOP Attorney General nomination, Kwame Raoul leads Democrats". Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Ury, Faryl. Miss America Visits HRC, The Harvard Crimson, February 14, 2005.
- ^ "Erika N. L. Harold". meyercapel.com. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ a b Press Release. Firm Welcomes New Associate, Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., February 1, 2011.
- ^ Zhou, Kevin. Justice Kennedy Presides at Law School, Law students face Supreme Court justice in Moot Trial Competition, The Harvard Crimson, November 15, 2006.
- ^ a b Lowe, Kenneth. GOP candidate Erika Harold says she will stress 'conservative values', Bloomington-Normal Pantagraph, June 6, 2013.
- ^ a b "Erika Harold Appointed as Executive Director of Commission on Professionalism". 2civility.org. March 22, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ^ Salon, October 28, 2002.
- National Public Radio, May 2, 2003.
- ^ "Boston.com / News / Nation / Effects of bullying aren't confined to childhood, study finds". archive.boston.com. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ^ Miss America resists pressure to silence abstinence message Archived March 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Baptist Press, October 9, 2002.
- ^ Carmon, Irin. There She Is, Inside the year of the Harvard beauty queen, The Harvard Crimson, September 25, 2003.
- ^ Friedman, Hilary Levey. Here She Comes, Miss (Elected) America, Slate, June 26, 2012.
- ^ Plenty of Republican Lt. Governor choices exist for 2014 Archived March 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Illinois Conservatives, February 13, 2013.
- ^ Griffy, Leslie. Ex-Miss America a delegate to GOP convention, Chicago Sun-Times, January 12, 2004, page 6
- ^ Tartakoff, Joseph M. HLS-Bound Beauty Queen Boosts Bush, The Harvard Crimson, September 13, 2004.
- ^ Pallasch, Abdon M. Former Miss America in running for Downstate GOP congressional nomination, Chicago Sun-Times, May 8, 2012.
- Huffington Post, April 24, 2012.
- ^ Blake, Aaron. Former Miss America Erika Harold launches congressional run, The Washington Post, June 4, 2013.
- ^ Linares, Veronica. "Miss America 2003 to run for Congress Illinois". UPI. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ Camia, Catalina. Ex-Miss America Erika Harold begins Congress campaign, USA Today, June 4, 2013.
- ^ a b Official Illinois State Board of Elections Results Archived January 28, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cahn, Emily (March 18, 2014). "Ann Callis, Rodney Davis to Face Off in Targeted Illinois District". Roll Call. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
- ^ "Urbana's Harold announces bid for attorney general". August 15, 2017.
- ^ Illinois Attorney General Election Results, Chicago Sun-Times, March 20, 2018.
External links
- Erika Harold on X
- Erika Harold biography Archived July 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- Appearances on C-SPAN