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Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization.
Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (December 20, 1914 – July 30, 2013) was an American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and then represented Virginia in the United States Senate , succeeding his father, Harry F. Byrd Sr.
In 1951, Byrd was among the official witnesses of the execution of Harry Burdette and Fred Painter, which was the first use of the electric chair in West Virginia. [42] In 1965 the state abolished capital punishment , with the last execution having occurred in 1959.
The Byrd machine, or Byrd Organization, was a political machine of the Democratic Party led by former Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd (1887–1966) that dominated Virginia politics for much of the 20th century.
Harry F. Byrd, who created the massive resistance strategy. Massive resistance was a political strategy created by American politicians Harry F. Byrd and James M. Thomson [1] aimed at getting Virginia officials to pass laws and policies preventing public school desegregation, particularly after Brown v.
The 1976 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 2, 1976. Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected to a second term over retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and state legislator Martin H. Perper.
Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected to his first full term after winning a race 4 years earlier to finish the remainder of his father's term. Having switched from Democratic to an Independent shortly before the election, Byrd became the first non-Democrat to represent the state in the Senate since 1889.
Harry F. Byrd Sr. Lester S. Parsons Party Democratic: Republican: Popular vote 163,960: 77,005 Percentage 64.84%: 30.45% County and Independent City Results