Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

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Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

Independent

Prior offices:

U.S. Senate Virginia

Years in office: 1965 - 1983

Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (b. December 20, 1914), was a member of the U.S. Senate from the state of Virginia from 1965 to 1983. He was originally appointed as a Democrat on November 12, 1965, to fill the vacancy left when his father, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., resigned. From 1970 on he was re-elected as an independent. Until his death on July 30, 2013, Byrd was the oldest living former senator.

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Political offices
Preceded by Harry Byrd	U.S. Senate Virginia November 12, 1965 – January 3, 1983	Succeeded by Paul Trible

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