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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.
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 Byrd of Virginia is a non-fiction book, published in 1996 by University Press of Virginia by Ronald L. Heinemann, concerning Harry F. Byrd.. James R. Sweeney of Old Dominion University wrote that the author "portrays Byrd as an unrelenting negativist whose convictions remained fixed as the world around him changed", [1] and that overall the work is an "unflattering portrait of an ...
James Wilbur Ceaser is an American political scientist. [1] He is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, and the director of the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976. [2]
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.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. was re-elected to a fourth term after defeating ...
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 ]