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Only Thurmond, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, Carl Hayden, John Stennis and Ted Stevens served longer in the Senate than Hollings.
Robert Byrd ( D-List of United States Senators from West Virginia | West Virginia ) served as president pro tempore during Democratic Senate majorities from 1989 to 2010, and as president pro tempore emeritus from 2003 to 2007
Byrd became a State senator in the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly, served a term as a Governor of Virginia, and was a United States Senator for over 30 years, heading the powerful Byrd Organization which dominated state politics between the mid 1920s and 1960s.
He was the brother of Virginia Governor and U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a dominant figure in Virginia Democratic Party between the 1920s and 1960s ; their father served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates for a time.
Byrd, by then an internationally recognized, pioneering American polar explorer and aviator, served for a time as Honorary National President ( 1931 – 1935 ) of Pi Gamma Mu, the international honor society in the social sciences.
* Laurence McKinley Gould, who was second-in-command to Richard E. Byrd on his first landmark expedition to Antarctica, served as a professor of geology at Carleton and later as College President from 1945 to 1962.
Arthur St. Clair was the territory's governor until November 1802, when President Thomas Jefferson removed him from office and appointed Charles Willing Byrd, who served the position until Ohio became a state and elected its first governor, Edward Tiffin, on March 3, 1803.
Byrd became auditor for the Arkansas Territory and served in that position from 1829 to 1831.
For example, Strom Thurmond, a U. S. senator from South Carolina, left office at age 100 after almost half a century in the body, while Robert Byrd of West Virginia was born in 1917 and served in the Senate from 1959 to his death in 2010.
Prior to the opening of Vista Middle School, some of the community was served by Byrd Middle School, while the other portion was served by Fulton Middle School and Sepulveda Middle School.
In this capacity, in which he served until the early 1950s, he officially welcomed everyone from Charles Lindbergh to Admiral Richard Byrd to Douglas MacArthur to New York and became master of the ticker tape parade.
Byrd served in the Senate of Virginia from 1948 to November 1965.
Notable freshmen were future Democratic presidential contenders Eugene McCarthy ( D-MN ) and Ed Muskie ( D-ME ), as well as future Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd ( D-WV ), who served until his death in 2010, and is the longest-serving Senator in the history of the Senate.
This ship, under the name Bear of Oakland, also served as flagship of the Byrd AE, 1933-35, which based at the Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf.
Bennett served with Richard E. Byrd on an aviation survey of Greenland in 1925, on which Byrd came to respect his ability as a pilot.
Byrd organized the College Park Rotary Club and served as its first president.
Randolph was a friend of William Byrd, and he served as an advisor to Byrd ’ s sons during their political careers.
For two years, Byrd served the school, without remuneration, as principal and business manager.

Byrd and Chairman
Former Committee Chairman Robert Byrd ( D-WV, far right ) shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates while Sen. Patrick Leahy ( D-VT, center right ) and Sen. Tom Harkin ( D-IA ) look on.
* Majority Leader, Democratic Conference Chairman, and Democratic Policy Committee Chairman: Robert Byrd
By late September, the Joint Committee on Reduction of Non-essential Federal Expenditures was in operation with Senator Byrd as Chairman ; it built his national reputation as an economizer.
He retired as publisher of The Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg and Chairman of the Byrd newspapers in 2001, turning over the business to his son, Thomas T. Byrd.
Despite his lack of success in campaigning, Byrd did receive several gubernatorial appointments: Chairman of the Maryland Tidewater Fisheries Commission, Maryland Commissioner to the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, and Chairman of the Commission on Chesapeake Bay Affairs.

Byrd and Board
Byrd authored and signed the " Southern Manifesto " condemning the 1954 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Brown v. Board of Education was decided during his term, and his initial efforts to preserve segregation through legislative means were hamstrung by U. S. Senator Harry Byrd, Sr., and his Massive Resistance campaign.
Massive resistance was a policy declared by U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of Virginia on February 24, 1956, to unite other white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies to prevent public school desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954.
Following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Virginia's failed policy of Massive Resistance to public school integration which was led by the Byrd Organization, racial desegregation lawsuits eventually resulted in a federal court-ordered busing program in Newport News which began in 1971.
This only accelerated during the Civil Rights Movement, when Byrd drafted the Southern Manifesto in opposition to the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
These include Chase Field ; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building & Courthouse in Beckley, West Virginia ; the main branch of the New York Public Library, the Lakewood Public Library ( Ohio ), the Sarasota County, Florida Judicial Center and the former Board of Education building in Brooklyn, NY ´.

Byrd and Winchester
Harry Flood Byrd was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1887 and moved with his parents, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr. and Eleanor Bolling ( Flood ), to Winchester, Virginia the same year.
Byrd was born in Winchester, Virginia and was educated at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Byrd did not run for reelection in 1982 and moved back to his hometown of Winchester.
The Winchester, Virginia, Byrd family is not related to Robert Byrd, a late U. S. Senator from West Virginia.
Martin had been widely regarded as the head of Virginia's Democratic Party, a role filled during the 1920s by Harry Flood Byrd of Winchester, another Virginia newspaperman who shared many of Glass's political views and who headed the political machine of Conservative Democrats known as the Byrd Organization, which dominated Virginia's politics until the 1960s.
By this time, as a young state senator from Winchester, Harry F. Byrd, was a rising star in state politics and the Democratic Party.

Byrd and Star
Current weekend personalities include Ryan Arnold, Byrd, Allie Ellison, Jim Foster, Carla Leonardo, Don Nelson, Steve Seaver, Sunday Night Star, Ten at Ten weekends encore, and Marc Vernon.
) Beaver also played the Moog on " Star Collector ", the final song on The Monkees ' fourth album for Colgems Records, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd ; " Natural Harmony ," " Goin ' Back ," and " Space Odyssey ," on The Byrds ' fifth album, " Notorious Byrd Brothers ;" and was the Moog performer for The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds project for Elektra Records in 1966.
He is the author of six Fitrakis Files books: Spooks, Nukes & Nazis, Free Byrd & Other Cries for Justice, A Schoolhouse Divided, The Brothers Voinovich and the Ohiogate Scandal and Star Wars, Weather Mods and Full Spectrum Dominance, and Cops, Cover-ups and Corruption, compilations of his writings at the Free Press and Columbus Alive.
Byrd also worked as a sportswriter for The Washington Star, a job he held until 1932.

Byrd and has
Mocking Byrd, p, 2:01.1 has been in 2:12, with a racing date approaching at Bay Meadows.
According to Standish, " Anyone who is acquainted with the facts and has any amount of logical reasoning can not avoid the conclusion that neither Cook, nor Peary, nor Byrd reached the North Pole ; and they all knew it.
Ferrabosco's motets provided direct models for Byrd's Emendemus in melius ( a5 ), O lux beata Trinitas ( a6 ), Domine secundum actum meum ( a6 ) and Siderum rector ( a5 ) as well as a more generalized paradigm for what Joseph Kerman has called Byrd's ' affective-imitative ' style, a method of setting pathetic texts in extended paragraphs based on subjects employing curving lines in fluid rhythm and contrapuntal techniques which Byrd learnt from his study of Ferrabosco.
From the early 1570s onwards Byrd became increasingly involved with Catholicism, which, as the scholarship of the last half-century has demonstrated, became a major factor in his personal and creative life.
This has led scholars from Kerman onwards to believe that Byrd was reinterpreting biblical and liturgical texts in a contemporary context and writing laments and petitions on behalf of the persecuted Catholic community, which seems to have adopted Byrd as a kind of ' house ' composer.
The position has been held by Strom Thurmond ( R-South Carolina ) ( 2001-2003 ), Robert Byrd ( D-West Virginia ) ( 2003-2007 ), and Ted Stevens ( R-Alaska ) ( 2007-2009 ).
Chiago has exhibited at the Heard Museum and has contributed cover art to Arizona Highways magazine and University of Arizona Press books ; Chana illustrated books by Tucson writer Byrd Baylor and created murals for Tohono O ' odham Nation buildings.
Like any great cathedral, Lincoln has had its share of organists who have achieved international renown: perhaps the most famous is William Byrd, the Renaissance composer.
Although it is uncertain whether Byrd was born in Lincoln as has been claimed, he was organist at the Cathedral from 1563 until 1572 and continued to compose works specifically for the cathedral choir after his departure.
Each band member has worked on numerous projects outside The Choir: Hindalong produced the successful City On A Hill series of worship albums, co-writing the well-known song " God of Wonders " with band-mate Byrd.
Ross Byrd, the only son of James Byrd, has been involved with Murder Victims ' Families for Reconciliation, an organization that opposes capital punishment.
This skit was retired for a time, after Byrd supposedly quit the show in 2007, but has recently returned.
( It has since been surpassed by Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond, Ted Kennedy, and Daniel Inouye, leaving Stennis sixth ).
While several countries have made claims to parts of Antarctica, most of Marie Byrd Land ( the portion east of 150 ° W ) has not been claimed by any sovereign nation.
In addition to his master's from Manhattan School of Music, Byrd has two master's degrees from Columbia University.
The Malamute dog has had a distinguished history ; aiding Rear Admiral Richard Byrd to the South Pole, and the miners who came to Alaska during the Gold Rush of 1896, as well as serving in World War II primarily as search and rescue dogs in Greenland, although also used as freighting and packing dogs in Europe.
The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1962, is a well-known organization that has hosted guests like Cuban violinist Guillermo Perich and Charlie Byrd ; the Annapolis Orchestra inspired composer David Ott to create the Annapolis Overture, which debuted in 1995.
Donald Byrd has collected dozens of variants inspired by mathematical concepts and written by himself and others.
Byrd argues the collection has pedagogic as well as amusement value.
Broken beat also has its roots in 70s jazz fusion and has been influenced by artists such as Lonnie Liston Smith, The Mizell Brothers ( producers for Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey and Johnny Hammond in the mid-70s ), Herbie Hancock, George Duke, and others.
* Andrew Jackson ( has also used the names Andy Byrd on WFOX, Fox 97 and Andrew Clark on WSB-AM / FM, WZGC, Z-93, now runs entertainment business with DJs, Game Shows and Casino Events, Andrew Byrd Productions )

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