President Ronald Reagan meets with Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd
President Ronald Reagan meets with Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd
U.S. President Ronald Reagan (L) meets with Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd (D, WV) and other congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House on June 30, 1987 on his policy in the Persian Gulf. (UPI Photo/Doug Mills/Files)
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December 31, 1969
Object Name:
Robert Byrd
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Robert Carlyle Byrd, 11-20-1917, born 20 November 1917, senior United States Senator, West Virginia, Democratic Party, Democrat, in office since 1959, longest-serving member in the history of the Senate, longest-serving, oldest senator in 2007, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, third in line of presidential succession, Senate Conference Secretary, Majority Whip, twice Majority Leader, born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr., his aunt and an uncle Vlurma and Titus Byrd renamed him Robert Byrd, 1937 married high-school sweetheart Erma Ora James, Beckley College (now Mountain State University), Concord College (now Concord University), Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston), and Marshall College (now Marshall University), 1946 seat West Virginia House of Delegates, West Virginia Senate 1951?1952, American University's Washington College of Law 1963, member Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and became Exalted Cyclops, racist in 1945, United States House of Representatives, 1958 elected to United States Senate, reelected nine times, anti-communist, supported Hubert Humphrey, nine terms in Senate, never lost an election, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, member Committee on Armed Services, Committee on Rules and Administration, Committee on the Budget, filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed Voting Rights Act of 1965, for Civil Rights Act of 1968, membership in the Baptist church, blatantly segregationist views, opposition to desegregation, Dixiecrat, Senate Majority Whip, Senate Majority Leader 1977-1981 and 1987-1989, Senate Minority Leader 1981-1987, King of Pork, reputation for attaining funds for projects in West Virginia, Big Daddy, legendary for sending federal money back to his home state, published four volume series on Senate history The Senate 1789?1989, fiddle player, efforts to limit gay marriage, opposed Federal Marriage Amendment, opposes affirmative action, opposes Bush's tax cuts, pro-choice, renounced earlier views on racial segregation, regrets filibustering and voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, voted against Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, outspoken critic of 2003 invasion of Iraq, member of Gang of 14, wife Erma Ora James Byrd (died March 26 2006), daughters Mona Byrd Fatemi and Marjorie Byrd Moore
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