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Robert Byrd Sen. Robert Byrd (left), accompanied by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller (centre), being administered the oath of office by Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, Jan. 4, 2007. It was the ninth consecutive time he took the oath—a U.S. Senate record. Sen. Robert Byrd meeting with Pres. Gerald R. Ford. Sen. Robert Byrd at a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, February 2005. Sen. Robert Byrd meeting with David Petraeus, Jan. 23, 2007, after Petraeus was appointed to command multinational forces in Iraq.
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Also Known As Robert Carlyle Byrd • Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.
Born November 20, 1917 • North Carolina
Died June 28, 2010 (aged 92) • Falls Church • Virginia
Title / Office House of Representatives (1953-1959), United States
Political Affiliation Democratic Party

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Robert Byrd
Sen. Robert Byrd (left), accompanied by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller (centre), being administered the oath of office by Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, Jan. 4, 2007. It was the ninth consecutive time he took the oath—a U.S. Senate record.
Sen. Robert Byrd meeting with Pres. Gerald R. Ford.
Sen. Robert Byrd at a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, February 2005.
Sen. Robert Byrd meeting with David Petraeus, Jan. 23, 2007, after Petraeus was appointed to command multinational forces in Iraq.
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