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A private college in West Virginia said Wednesday it is removing the name of the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd from its health center, saying his name had caused “divisiveness and pain" without ...
Robert C. Byrd Center for Pharmacy Education, University of Charleston in Charleston, West Virginia [9] [10] Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia [6] [9] Robert C. Byrd Clinical Teaching Center, Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia [9] [10]
Byrd's mother, Ada Mae Kirby. Robert Byrd was born on November 20, 1917, as Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. [12] in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to Cornelius Calvin Sale and his wife Ada Mae (Kirby). [13] When he was ten months old, his mother died on Armistice Day [14] during the 1918 flu pandemic.
The campaign also organized successful demonstrations against the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Health Care Bus as it traveled through West Virginia in the summer of 1994. Senator Byrd, while the bill was being debated on the Senate floor rose suggesting the brakes be put on approving National Health Care measure while the bus was ...
The death of Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat who represented West Virginia, may endanger the planned financial reform bill. Without Byrd's vote, the Democrats may struggle to obtain the 60 votes ...
The death of Sen. Robert Byrd, the longtime West Virginia Democrat, could throw a wrench in Democrats' plan to quickly pass the landmark financial reform bill. Senate Democrats have been hoping to ...
The Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center biotechnology research and teaching structure on the campus of Marshall University along 3rd Avenue in Huntington, West Virginia. It is named after longtime U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd , who was a proponent for the project and helped receive funding for its construction.
Due to Senator Robert Byrd's declining health, there was speculation about what Manchin would do if Byrd died. Manchin refused to comment on the subject until Byrd's death, except to say that he would not appoint himself to the Senate. [58] Byrd died on June 28, 2010, [59] and Manchin appointed Carte Goodwin, his 36-year-old legal adviser, on ...