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U.S. Senator from Virginia.
U.S. Senator.
Virginia State Senator, U. S. Senator from Va.
United States Senator from Virginia.
Harry Flood Byrd Jr. was an United States Senator.
- 1887 --born Martinsburg, W. Va., son of Richard Evelyn & Eleanor Bolling (Flood) Byrd, and nephew of Hal D. Flood
- 1902 --acquired the Winchester Star
- 1906 --established the Martinsburg Evening Journal and leases his first apple orchard
- 1908 --appointed to Winchester City Council, first public office
- 1908-1918 --president of the Valley Turnpike Company
- 1909 --sold Martinsburg Evening Journal to purchase apple orchards
- 1913 --married Anne Douglas Beverley
- 1915-1925 --member of Virginia State Senate: served on the Finance, Roads, and Privileges & Elections Committees
- 1922-1925 --chairman of the State Democratic Committee
- 1923 --acquired the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record
- 1923 --member & Chairman of Publicity Committee of the "Pay As You Go" Roads Association
- 1926-1930 --governor of Virginia
- 1928 --his anti-lynch law passed by the Virginia legislature
- 1928-1940 --member of the Democratic National Committee
- 1929 --acquired his family home "Rosemont" from the Harriman's of New York
- 1930 --reorganization of Virginia State Constitution and government
- 1932 --Virginia endorsed Byrd for president
- 1933-1964 --U. S. Senator from Virginia. Member of the following standing committees: Finance, chair man, 1955-1965; Armed Services, Rules; Civil Service. Member of the following special committees: 1. Select committee on Government Reorganization; 2. Joint Committee on Reduction of non-essential Federal Spending; 3. Provision Committee to draft the original Atomic Energy Legislation; 4. Finanance Subcommittee on intergovernmental taxation; 5. Preparedness Subcommittee which investigated the Korean ammunition shortage; 6. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation
- 1958 --announced retirement, but was persuaded by friends to run again
- 1965 --resigned from Senate due to ill health
- 1966 --died at "Rosemont"
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