Talk:Harry F. Byrd Jr.

message: I'm relatively certain that Harry F. Byrd, Jr., has now lived to the second-oldest age ever attained by anyone to have served in the U.S. Senate, exceeded only by Strom Thurmond.  However, the only proof I would propose to have for this would be the "biographical directory" of the U.S. Congress, and its providing of dates of birth.  There is no "trivia" or similar section so the only way that this could be proven by this resource would be for one to read the biography of ever single former senator, which isn't either practicable or citable.  Does anyone have a reliable published source with which to confirm this putative fact so that it would merit inclusion?  I believe it to be encyclopedic in nature if it can be confirmed by a source.  75.200.109.125 (talk) 02:24, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second-oldest Senator of all time? 

message: The text in this entry that begins, "Education was not on his agenda..." and continues to the end of that paragraph is copied verbatim from the wikipedia entry for Byrd Jr.'s father, Harry F. Byrd (2nd to last graf in the "Virginia politics" section), including the dummy "4" citation link. Frankly, the two sentences before the copied text that read, "Byrd was a staunch racist and viciously fought desegregation. Byrd considered his fight against desegregation as one of his life's battles although unpopular with many who knew him.", also sounds much more like his father, and at the very least deserves a citation. Regardless of the fate of that line, however, the material copied from his father's entry should be removed from Byrd Jr.'s entry. 38.100.29.7 (talk) 17:57, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material from Byrd Jr.'s father entry copied to his entry 

message: I have removed this statement from the retirement section, as it has no source supporting it.Hoppyh (talk) 01:58, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Byrd Had Hired No African-American Reporter until 2000 

message: I have moved the following text here: query - is it sufficiently notable for this encyclopedic article?
In 1971, Byrd proposed a bill to allow the importation of various metals from Rhodesia, contradicting the position of the President and the United Nations Security Council that forbade most forms of trade or financial exchange with Rhodesia, which had a white-controlled government. The bill passed, and the 1971 Byrd Amendment allowed Rhodesia to trade with the U.S. in spite of these sanctions until it was repealed in 1977. Hoppyh (talk) 21:29, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legislation on Rhodesia 

message: I cleaned this up a little last week while this laptop was having update problems. I was able to briefly look at both cited books, and noticed the Hatch book really barely discussed Young Harry, ending basically with his father's death. I have other responsibilities and don't know when or if I'll be able to get back to this. I also wanted to note that I got a disambiguation link notice and corrected that problem, but could not find another technical issue DABsolver noted, that some link on this page refers to itself.Jweaver28 (talk) 16:48, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  More work needed