Roy Vincent Harris (October 2, 1895 – January 21, 1985) was an American politician and newspaper publisher in the U.S. state of Georgia during the mid-1900s.

However, he is arguably best remembered as an ardent supporter of racial segregation and white supremacy, and both as an elected official and a prominent citizen, Harris fought against school integration and opposed the larger civil rights movement.

[7] In addition to helping gubernatorial candidates, Haris also used his power to pass certain pieces of legislation through the Georgia General Assembly.

[8] Both during and after his time as an elected official, Harris was an ardent supporter of racial segregation and opposed efforts at school integration and the civil rights movement,[2] garnering the sobriquet of "Mr.

[9] In 1946, Harris lost his reelection effort to the House of Representatives, which he blamed on increased African American voting in his district following the end of the state's white primary system.

Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist actions and attacked the Southern Regional Council, a civil rights organization, of being infiltrated by communists.

[2] Using his political connections, he was able to get a resolution introduced into the General Assembly that called for the removal of the pro-integration journalists, leading to their resignation shortly thereafter.

[20][21][22] During their trip, they spoke to the local Citizens' Council organization and gave speeches promoting school segregation,[23] helping to galvanize the segregationists in the state.

[2] He campaigned on behalf of segregationist Lester Maddox in the 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election,[29] and in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections, he broke ranks with the Democratic Party, supporting conservative Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964[30] and former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1968, serving on the latter's Georgia campaign committee.

[2] The couple had one child, a son named Roy Vincent Harris Jr.,[2] who would later become a noted aerospace engineer after graduating from Georgia Tech and working at NASA's Langley Research Center.

[2] Today, his papers are held at the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia.