95th Congress (1977-1979)96th Congress (1979-1981)100th Congress (1987-1989)
Years of Service: 1959- Party: Democrat
BYRD, Robert Carlyle, a Representative
and a Senator from West Virginia; born in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, N.C.,
November 20, 1917; attended West Virginia public schools; student at Beckley
College, Concord College, Morris Harvey College, and Marshall College, all in
West Virginia, and George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C.;
graduated, American University Law School, Washington, D.C., 1963; member of the
West Virginia house of delegates 1947-1950; member of the West Virginia senate
1951-1952, resigning when elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses (January 3,
1953-January 3, 1959); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958
for the term commencing January 3, 1959; reelected in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982,
1988, and again in 1994 for the term commencing January 3, 1995; Secretary,
Senate Democratic Conference 1967-1971; Democratic whip 1971-1977; Majority
Leader, 1977-1980, 1987-1988; Minority Leader, 1981-1986; President pro tempore
(1989-1995); chairman, Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred First through
One Hundred Third Congresses).
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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