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Senate Years of Service: 1959-2010 Party: Democrat
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BYRD, Robert Carlyle, a Representative and a Senator from West Virginia; born in North
Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, N.C., November 20, 1917; attended West Virginia
public schools; student at Beckley College, Concord College, Morris Harvey
College, and Marshall College, all in West Virginia, and George Washington
University Law School, Washington, D.C.; graduated, American University Law
School 1963; received Bachelors degree in political science from Marshall
University 1994; member of the West Virginia house of delegates 1947-1950;
member of the West Virginia senate 1951-1952, resigning when elected to
Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and
Eighty-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959); elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958 for the term commencing January 3,
1959, and served from January 3, 1959, until his death; reelected in 1964,
1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and again in 2006 for the term ending
January 3, 2013; Secretary, Senate Democratic Conference 1967-1971; Democratic
whip 1971-1977; Majority Leader 1977-1980, 1987-1988; Minority Leader
1981-1986; President pro tempore (1989-1995, June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003,
2007-June 28, 2010); chair, Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred First
through One Hundred Third Congresses; One Hundred Seventh Congress [January
3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003]; One Hundred Tenth Congress); died
June 28, 2010; lay in repose in the Senate Chamber July 1, 2010; interment in
Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman
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Child of the Appalachian Coalfields. Morgantown: West Virginia
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