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Byrd passed away on March 25, 2006 after battling a long illness. Robert Byrd could not afford college. In fact, his diploma from Marshall University would have to wait until 60 years after high school, when Senator Byrd was 77 years old. In between high school and his undergraduate degree, though, Byrd enrolled in law school and, after ten ...
Jun 28, 2010 · Robert Carlyle Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. on November 20, 1917, in the North Carolina town of North Wilkesboro. His mother died when he was a year old, and he was adopted and renamed ...
The longest serving senator in history, Robert C. Byrd gained his higher education in the United States Senate. Rising from an impoverished childhood in the coalfields of West Virginia, Byrd entered public office in 1947 without a college degree. As a senator he earned a law degree by attending classes in the evenings, and he never stopped ...
Jun 28, 2010 · Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history known for passionate rhetoric and insider knowledge of Washington’s power corridors, died early Monday at age 92.
Jun 28, 2010 · Robert Byrd obituary. As a conservative Democrat with a segregationist background, US Senator Robert Byrd had spent half a century in Congress and was its oldest member when, on 12 February 2003 ...
Aug 9, 2019 · The New York Times, "Robert C. Byrd, a pillar of the Senate, dies at 92," June 28, 2010 The White House, "President Obama on the loss of Senator Robert Byrd: ‘A voice of principle and reason ...
Oct 7, 2020 · Robert Byrd served as U.S. Representative for the state of West Virginia from 1953 to 1959, and as a U.S. Senator from 1959, until his death in 2010 ( here ). Biden did deliver a eulogy for Byrd ...
