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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ]
The Byrd Amendment—named for its author, Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Virginia—was a 1971 amendment to the U.S. Federal Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. It prohibited the US government from banning the importation of any strategic material from a non-communist country as long as the importation of the same materials from ...