Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd (jeneng lair Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; ) yaiku pulitikus Amerika Sarekat sing ngejabat minangka Senator Amerika Sarekat saka Virginia Kulon kanggo kuwih saka 51 taun, saka 1959 nganti seda ing 2010. Minangka anggota Parte Dhemokrat, Byrd sadurunge ngejabat minangka anggota DPR saka 1953 nganti 1959. Ia menika Senator AS karo masa jabatan paling suwe ing sajarah Kongres Amerika Sarekat, ngantai disalip dening anggota DPR John Dingell saka Michigan; anggota pungkasan sing isih ana saka Senat AS sing ngejabat ing wektu kapresidhenan Dwight Eisenhower; lan anggota pungkasan sing isih ana saka Kongres sing ngejabat ing wektu kapresidhenan Harry S. Truman. Byrd uga menika siji-sijine wong Virginia Kulon sing ngejabat ing loro dewan legislatur nagara lan loro dewan Kongres.

Referensi

Wacaan tambahan
 Corbin, David A. The Last Great Senator: Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents (Dulles: Potomac, 2012) 365 pp.
 Carlson, Peter. "Robert Byrd Consorts With a KKK Grand Dragon," American History (2011) 46#3 pp 18–19.

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 Collected news and commentary at The New York Times

 FBI Records: The Vault – U.S. Senator Robert Byrd at fbi.gov

 Sen. Byrd Remembered for "Principle and Honor" – video by Democracy Now!

 Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes, Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Together With Memorial Services in Honor of Robert C. Byrd, Late a Senator from West Virginia, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session

Artikel
 If This Is the Senate's Soul ... Michael Grunwald, The Washington Post, June 18, 2006
 A Senator's Shame Eric Pianin, The Washington Post, June 19, 2005
 The United States Senate designates Robert Byrd as President Pro Tempore Emeritus of the United States Senate  The Library of Congress THOMAS, January 15, 2003


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