Senator Robert Byrd
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s West Virginia's senior United States Senator. As of 2006, he is the longest-serving current member of the U.S. Congress, having served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1953
If Byrd wins reelection and serves the full term, he will have served 60 years and he will be 96 years of age, which would make him the second oldest senator in US history after Thurmond. Byrd has cast a total of 17,673 votes as of June 16, 2006 - the most of any senator in United States history [2]. Byrd is also known for having amassed one of the largest number of placenames in the history of Congress.
In the early 1940s, when Byrd was approximately 24 years old, he joined the Ku Klux Klan, which he had seen holding parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, as a child, his father having also been a Klan member[4]. Byrd was unanimously elected as the Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.
it goes on to say that he regrets it now but too me it speaks volumes onwhos interests were in mind when casting those 17,673 votes in congress
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s West Virginia's senior United States Senator. As of 2006, he is the longest-serving current member of the U.S. Congress, having served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1953
If Byrd wins reelection and serves the full term, he will have served 60 years and he will be 96 years of age, which would make him the second oldest senator in US history after Thurmond. Byrd has cast a total of 17,673 votes as of June 16, 2006 - the most of any senator in United States history [2]. Byrd is also known for having amassed one of the largest number of placenames in the history of Congress.
In the early 1940s, when Byrd was approximately 24 years old, he joined the Ku Klux Klan, which he had seen holding parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, as a child, his father having also been a Klan member[4]. Byrd was unanimously elected as the Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.
it goes on to say that he regrets it now but too me it speaks volumes onwhos interests were in mind when casting those 17,673 votes in congress
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