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elected in '58, started serving in '59
[[Image:Uity70.jpg|right|thumb|Former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Majority Leader and [[Klansman]] Senator Robert C. Byrd.]]
[[Image:Uity70.jpg|right|thumb|Former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Majority Leader and [[Klansman]] Senator Robert C. Byrd.]]
'''Robert Byrd''' (born 1917) is a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator from [[West Virginia]]. He is currently the oldest and longest-serving member of [[Congress]], [[President pro tempore]] of the US Senate, and is the longest-serving [[Senator]] in history, having been first elected in 1959.
'''Robert Byrd''' (born 1917) is a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator from [[West Virginia]]. He is currently the oldest and longest-serving member of [[Congress]], [[President pro tempore]] of the US Senate, and is the longest-serving [[Senator]] in history, having been first elected in 1958.
==Participation in the Ku Klux Klan==
==Participation in the Ku Klux Klan==