Robert Byrd was born on November 20, 1917 as Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to Cornelius Calvin Sale Sr. and his wife Ada Mae (Kirby).
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"When he was ten months old, his mother died in the 1918 flu pandemic. In accordance with his mother's wishes, his father[10] dispersed their children among relatives. Calvin Jr. was adopted by his aunt and uncle, Titus and Vlurma Byrd, who changed his name to Robert Carlyle Byrd and raised him in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.[3][11][12]".
Byrd was in office in West Virginia. He never held office in North Carolina.
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Byrd (born
Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a
United States Senator from
West Virginia. A member of the
Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the
longest-serving Senator in United States history. In addition, he was, at the time of his death, the
longest-serving member in the history of the
United States Congress,
[1][2][3][4] a record later surpassed by Representative
John Dingell of
Michigan.
[5] Byrd was the last remaining member of the U.S. Senate to have served during the presidency of
Dwight Eisenhower, and the last remaining member of Congress to have served during the presidency of
Harry Truman. Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both houses of the state legislature and both houses of Congress.
[6]
Byrd served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1947 to 1950, and the West Virginia State Senate from 1950 to 1952. Initially elected to the
United States House of Representatives in 1952, Byrd served there for six years before being elected to the Senate in 1958. He rose to become one of the Senate's most powerful members, serving as secretary of the
Senate Democratic Caucus from 1967 to 1971 and—after defeating his longtime colleague,
Ted Kennedy—as
Senate Majority Whip from 1971 to 1977. Over the next three decades, Byrd led the Democratic caucus in numerous roles depending on whether his party held control of the Senate, including
Senate Majority Leader,
Senate Minority Leader,
President pro tempore of the United States Senate and President pro tempore emeritus.
[7] As President pro tempore—a position he held four times in his career—he was third in the
line of presidential succession, after the Vice President and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives."