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    Harry F. Byrd Sr. His public service spanned thirty-six years, while he was a publisher of several Virginia newspapers. After the decline of the Byrd...
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    Samuel Argall. He was the brother of Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a dominant figure in the Virginia Democratic Party from the 1920s until...
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    Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United...
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    Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd (February 12, 1889 – October 2, 1970) was an American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician....
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  • resistance was a strategy declared by U.S. senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. of Virginia and his son Harry Jr.'s brother-in-law, James M. Thomson, who represented...
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    J. Lindsay Almond (category United States federal judges appointed by John F. Kennedy)
    Senator Harry F. Byrd, Almond had demonstrated loyalty to the Byrd Organization as well as the national ticket and racial segregation. Byrd had been...
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    Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party...
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  • James Wilbur Ceaser is an American political scientist. He is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, and the director of the Program on Constitutionalism...
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    unpledged electors from Mississippi and Alabama cast their vote for Senator Harry F. Byrd, as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The 1960 presidential election...
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    C. E. Byrd, a Blue Ribbon School, is a high school in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. In continuous operation since its establishment in 1925, C...
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    the 1960s, he was one of many Byrd Democrats who distanced themselves from the extreme positions of Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and concluded that obstinate...
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    awards) Duane R. Bushey John D. Butler Smedley Butler Richard E. Byrd (2 awards) James F. Caldwell Jr. (2 awards) Albert M. Calland III Joe Campa William...
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    of his support for the civil rights movement; they voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, as did an elector from Oklahoma. Forty-three years old...
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    was the senior U.S. War Department representative on the expedition. Siple was the same Eagle Scout who accompanied Byrd on the previous Byrd Antarctic...
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    Virginia until Chuck Robb's victory in 1988. Spong's Senate colleague, Harry F. Byrd Jr., became an independent in 1970. After his Senate career, Spong returned...
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  • the congress until A. Willis Robertson retired from the senate when Harry F. Byrd Jr. (D-Virginia) took this distinction in the final days of the congress...
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    of Virginia's Democratic Party, a role filled during the 1920s by Harry Flood Byrd of Winchester, another Virginia newspaperman who shared many of Glass's...
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  • group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he later said he officially left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote...
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    football team. Though a poor student, he was class president in his junior and senior years. He graduated in 1961. At the University of Delaware in Newark, Biden...
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    of his support for the civil rights movement; they voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, as did an elector from Oklahoma. Kennedy thus became the...
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    to the aging Senator Harry F. Byrd, of Virginia on the Senate Finance Committee and had already presided as chairman during Byrd's prolonged absence because...
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  • McFarland & Company. ISBN 9781476639932. Dick, Bernard F. (2022). The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes. University...
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    Albert Vickers Bryan (category United States district court judges appointed by Harry S. Truman)
    of the so-called Massive Resistance to the ruling urged by Senator Harry F. Byrd and other Virginia political leaders. The Albert V. Bryan United States...
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  • Times. January 21, 1897. p. 2. Byrd, p. 104 "U.S. senators from Indiana". United States Senate. Retrieved January 1, 2009. Byrd, Robert C. (October 1, 1993)...
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    Supreme Court Justice) Lewis F. Powell and others to support Governor J. Lindsay Almond when he decided to break with the Byrd Organization and adhere to...
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  • Elizabeth Winter Jones, Beverley was a cousin of long-time Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. He was a banker with the Washington, DC-based Riggs National Bank...
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    Marie Ames Byrd, 85, widow of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and namesake of Marie Byrd Land, the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. Harry Partch, 73...
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    Harry S. Truman's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended...
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    and tactical assets" to collect information in some areas. Senator Robert Byrd and other senators complained that the "better than" successor to the SR-71...
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    to the fading but still dominant Democratic Byrd Organization led by United States Senator Harry F. Byrd. Both times Dalton proposed to abolish the poll...
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