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'''Harry Flood Byrd''' was a Senator from the State of Virginia from 1933 to 1965. Byrd was remembered mostly as a leader in the senate against [[New Deal]] initiatives.
{{Officeholder
|name=Harry F. Byrd
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|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=Anne Douglas Beverley
|religion=
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{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Virginia
|terms=March 4, 1933 – November 10, 1965
|preceded=[[Claude A. Swanson]]
|status=f
|succeeded=Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
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{{Officeholder/governor
|state=Virginia
|lieutenant=Junius Edgar West
|terms=February 1, 1926 – January 15, 1930
|preceded=Elbert Lee Trinkle
|former=y
|succeeded=John Garland Pollard
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{{Officeholder/state senator
|state=Virginia
|district=26th
|terms=January 9, 1924 – February 1, 1926
|preceded=James M. Dickerson
|former=y
|succeeded=Joseph S. Denny
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{{Officeholder/state senator
|state=Virginia
|district=10th
|terms=January 12, 1916 – January 9, 1924
|preceded=Frank S. Tavenner
|former=y
|succeeded=Marshall B. Booker
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'''Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.''' (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was a senator from the state of [[Virginia]] from 1933 to 1965. A staunch opponent of desegregation, he led the Byrd Organization, a [[Democrat]] political machine during the 20th century that dominated statewide politics in the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]]. A member of the [[Conservative Coalition]], Byrd was also remembered largely as a leader against [[New Deal]] initiatives.
==Early life==
Harry Flood Byrd was born on June 10, 1887 to Richard Evelyn Byrd and Eleanor Bolling Flood in Martinsburg, [[West Virginia]]. Reared in Winchester along with his brothers, Byrd's lifelong prominence would root to the Southern culture he learned there. Quitting school at the age of fifteen, he managed to take over the family newspaper that had been failing, and transformed it into an enterprise that was profitable.
==External links==
==External links==
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1900773?seq=1 The New Deal and the States: Roosevelt Versus the Byrd Organization in Virginia]
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1900773?seq=1 The New Deal and the States: Roosevelt Versus the Byrd Organization in Virginia]
*[https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B001208 Byrd, Harry Flood - Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress]
*[https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Byrd_Harry_Flood_Sr_1887-1966 Harry F. Byrd (1887–1966) - Encyclopedia Virginia]
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[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:Democratic Party]]
[[Category:Establishment]]
[[Category:Racism]]
[[Category:Virginia Governors]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:State Senators]]