William Harper



William Harper (April 2nd, 2301 - ) is the current chairman of Moderate Party of Dorvik and a member of Fairfax City Council, working at the HOB TECH as Junior Executive.

Personal Life
William Harper was born into secular upper middle-class family in Haldor, county of Kordusia, his mother Claudette owning perfume shop and his father Roger working as a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Trade & Industry. William was a quiet, little boy in his early youth with only a few friends, but this didn't stop him from succeeding at school. After passing grammar & high school, he thought about start studying politics but eventually applied to the Fairfax Business Academy in county of Dorvan at August 2323. He hardly got in due to the fact that he got just two points over the required point limit in the entrance exam.

William was good, diligent student who actively took part in all leisure time activities provided by the academy, becoming popular figure amongst his student companions. Many times when other students went to party, William read political writings by famous Dorvish politicians and works of political theorists. At October 2327 he finished the academy getting Master Degree of Economics and being in the top 5 of his course.

For couple of months after his graduation he worked at his uncle's bank, but in January 2328 he got a regular job at "TXJ Inc." factory in Haldor as Section Chief, supervising the production of Spinzone brand washing machines. During the early months in his new work, he had big quarrels with other Section Chiefs about work shifts and production emphasis: he regarded the production of washing machines most important, no matter other production. This would have costed his job if the Managing Director of the factory wouldn't have been a friend of William's father, Roger.

Nevertheless the job at the factory started to frustrate him due to bad career chances and inflamed working environment so in December 2335 he resigned and applied to technology & electronics firm "HOB TECH", getting a post of Section Chief again at factory producing TVs & VCRs at Haldor but this time he had better pay and good colleagues. At June 2339 he got promoted to Managing Director of the factory and at November 2342 he got promotion and transfer to company's headquarters at Fairfax, acting as Junior Executive of company's technology related production.

Political Life
William Harper started to take an increasing interest on politics in a time when he was studying at Fairfax Business Academy. In March 2326 he joined the "Independent Right-Wingers" student group, engaging in various political student meetings and public debates with socialists, earning a nickname "gentle hawk" due to his strong and argumentative but polite debating style. After graduation in 2327 he continued his political participation in Haldor, acting as independent. In June 2328 he joined Allied Conservative Party of Dorvik, being an active member but couldn't push through his ideas about "social market economy", "equality of chances" and "respectful relation towards nature". He also met opposition from party conservatives who condemned his stiff secularity. Nevertheless, he was elected into party's regional committee of Kordusia in July 2330.

In June 2332 he resigned from the party due to ideological disagreement with the leadership of the regional committee and frustration on party's conservatives & their military stances. But his compassion towards politics didn't die. At March 2336 he ran for FairFax City Council as independent, getting over 80 000 votes. His political platform was made up from the very same ideas he tried to push through in ACPD: social market economy, equality of chances and respectful relation towards nature in addition to securalism & enterpreunership. He was open about his political ideas and even in the centre of stormy debate about city's budget money, he didn't lose his temper. At 2339 he won re-election with clear numbers.

But city council wasn't enough for William Harper, he wanted to affect society as a whole, in the center of power. As an independent he didn't stand a chance so he saw that there's no other option than establishing a new party in Dorvik, the Moderate Party of Dorvik.

Family Relations

 * At May 2331 when William Harper was still working at TXJ Inc. as Section Chief, he met 29-year old Clara Nicholson who was also working there in the accounting office. They became good friends and eventually fell in love with each other. Two years later at Midsummer day, they got married in city magistrate at Haldor and in April 2334 Clara gave birth their first child, Bert and at November 2336, Otto.


 * William Harper also has two brothers, Frank (January 25th, 2295 - ) who is living at Paddock, county of Largonia working as a prosecutor and Jack (August 9th, 2307), living at Chippenham, county of Dorvak as Real Estate Agent.

Quotes

 * "Fanatic federalism & laissez-faire capitalism aren't what this nation need, but responsible individuality, equality of chances and social market economy" - Harper in ACPD's party conference in June 2331.
 * "All talk about strictly public health care and strictly private health care. What has happened for middle road solutions?" - Harper at Fairfax City Council meeting at September 2338
 * "It doesn't matter if far-right conservatives don't like us, it's enough that moderate conservatives do" - Harper for party secretary Carl Stohlberg during party assembly at March 2343.