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Harry Reid, longtime Senate Democratic leader, dies at 82.
The political kingmaker retired in 2017 after having played key roles in shaping both the Senate and Nevada politics.
Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. The combative The post Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader, dies at 82 ...
Harry Mason Reid Jr. was born on December 2, 1939, in Searchlight, Nevada, the third of four sons of Harry Reid, a rock miner, and Inez Orena (Jaynes) Reid, a laundress for local brothels. [4] [5] At that time, Searchlight was a small, impoverished town. [6] [7] His father died of suicide in 1972, at the age of 58, when Harry was 32 years old.
Reid made headlines in May 2005 when he said of George W. Bush, "The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser." Reid later apologized for these comments. [26] Reid also called Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas an "embarrassment" [27] and referred to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as a ...
Harry Reid (1939–2021) was an American politician who served as the senior United States senator from Nevada, from 1987 to 2017. Harry Reid may also refer to: People
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a master parliamentarian who represented Nevada in the Senate from 1987 to 2017, has died at 82. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a master ...
Not a showman, Reid sometimes got in his own way on the national political stage. As majority leader from 2007 to 2015, he kept the Senate in Democratic hands through a volatile era of polarizing ...