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Southern .... Democratic candidates won by large margins in the Southern states 
in every .... For nearly a generation West Virginia was part of the Solid South. .... 
better in presidential elections in the South starting in 1952, Republicans did not
... [DOC] [TLE] Robert Byrd - Wikipedia [PAR] Robert Carlyle "Bob" Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A 
member of the ... Byrd served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1947 
to 1950, and the West .... In his re-election bid in 2000, he won all but seven 
precincts. ... Despite an 83-day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress 
voted... [DOC] [TLE] Southern Democrats - Wikipedia [PAR] Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the 
American ... Nationally, Republicans lost Congress in 1930 and the White House 
in 1932 by .... elections in Southern states starting in 1964, Democrats controlled 
nearly ... In the November 2008 elections, Democrats won 3/4 the U.S. House... [DOC] [TLE] The 26th Amendment - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Amid increasing support for a Constitutional amendment, Congress passed the 
26th ... became the first state to lower its voting age in state and local elections 
from 21 to 18. ... Jennings Randolph, then a Democratic congressman from West 
Virginia, ... After an overwhelming House vote in favor on March 23, the 26th... [DOC] [TLE] Presidential Elections - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of Presidential Elections, including videos, ... The 
repeal of the excise tax on whiskey was especially popular in the West. ... also 
made an issue of Virginia's almost unbroken control of the White House, which 
they ... he barely won the nomination in the Republican congressional caucus 
over... [DOC] [TLE] (Re)Nationalization of Congressional Elections - Hoover Institution [PAR] The 2006, 2010, and 2014 congressional elections were not kind to the 
preceding claim. ... Candidates of the party at different levels of government win 
.... Figure 5. Split Ticket (President/House) Voting Has Declined. Source: ANES. 0
. 5 .... Consider that in the 2012 elections in West Virginia, Mitt Romney 
shellacked Barack. [DOC] [TLE] Battleground West Virginia: Electing the President in 1960 [PAR] In the four weeks that made up the West Virginia primary in 1960, candidates, ... 
in the two previous presidential elections and regain the White House, which left 
... main Democratic rival in 1952 and 1956, Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. 
..... While Kennedy won 56% of the vote, had the highest vote total in Wisconsin... [DOC] [TLE] Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92 - The New ... [PAR] Jun 28, 2010 ... A decade later, Mr. Byrd saw a similar lack of Congressional spine. ... Joe 
Manchin III of West Virginia, a Democrat, will appoint an interim successor. ... his 
early involvement with the Klan, an association that almost thwarted his ... run for 
the House of Representatives in 1952; Democratic leaders urged him... [DOC] [TLE] The Cold War Home Front: McCarthyism [PAR] Jan 28, 2013 ... In those mid-term elections of 1946, the Republican Party won a majority in .... 
resulting in nearly a decade of fluff, westerns, and patriotic war films. 7. ... 1950, at 
the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, .... Democrats dropped 
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elections are almost never friendly to the party holding the White House ... in 
2012, putting them at their highest mark of legislative control since 1952. .... 
Democrats have controlled the West Virginia House of Delegates since the... [DOC] [TLE] Our Senators | Davis & Elkins College [PAR] Starting work as a farmhand, young Davis was subsequently employed as a ... 
Then he built

Question: This West Virginian won election to the House in 1952, beginning nearly 5 decades in Congress
Answer: Robert Byrd