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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.
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.
In this congress, J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas) was the most senior junior senator and Daniel Brewster (D-Maryland) was the most junior senior senator for most of the congress until A. Willis Robertson retired from the senate when Harry F. Byrd Jr. (D-Virginia) took this distinction in the final days of the congress.
A little more than a month after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown, on June 26, 1954, [note 1] Senator Byrd vowed to stop integration attempts in Virginia's schools. By the end of that summer, Governor Thomas B. Stanley, a member of the Byrd Organization, had appointed a Commission on Public Education, consisting of 32 white Democrats and chaired by Virginia Senator Garland "Peck" Gray of ...
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.
Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. was re-elected to a seventh term after defeating Republican Richard A. May and independent James W. Respess. Results [ edit ]
Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. was re-elected to a fifth term after defeating Independent Democrat H. M. Vise Sr. and Independent Clarke Robb. Results [ edit ]
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.