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Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
Harry F. Byrd

Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. as a Senator in the 1930s. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression.

In office
February 1, 1926 – January 15, 1930
Preceded by John Garland Pollard
Succeeded by Elbert Lee Trinkle
In office
March 4, 1933 – November 10, 1965
Preceded by Claude A. Swanson
Succeeded by Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
Born June 10, 1887(1887-06-10)
Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States
Died October 20, 1966 (aged 79)
New York City, New York, United States
Political party Democratic
Spouse Susan Ray-Byrd
Children Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Amanda Winston Byrd
Residence 7683 Clarke Street, 24th Avenue, New York City
Religion Episcopalian

Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. The Governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Harry Flood Byrd Jr (born December 20, 1914) is an American Politician. The City of New York The Episcopal Church is the official name of the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. (June 10, 1887–October 20, 1966) of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia was an American newspaper publisher, farmer and politician. Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Berryville is an Incorporated town in Clarke County, Virginia, United States. Clarke County is a county located in the US state &mdash officially " Commonwealth " &mdash of Virginia. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view A farmer is a person who raises living organisms for food or raw materials A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person He was a descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia. First Families of Virginia (FFV originated with colonists from England who primarily settled at Jamestown and along the James River and other navigable His ancestors included William Byrd II of Westover Plantation, who established Richmond, Robert "King" Carter, a colonial governor, and Pocahontas, and he was the brother of famed aviator Richard Evelyn Byrd. William Byrd II ( 28 March 1674 &ndash 26 August 1744) was a planter and Author from Charles City County, Virginia Westover Plantation is located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County Virginia. This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Robert Carter also known as King Carter (1663 &ndash August 4 1732 of Lancaster County was a Colonist in Virginia and became one of the Pocahontas (c 1595 – March 21 1617 was a Native American woman who married an Englishman John Rolfe, and became a celebrity in London in the last year of her Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN ( October 25, 1888 &ndash March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar

Byrd was a dominant figure in Virginia Democratic Party politics for much of the first half of the 20th century. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on He became Governor of Virginia in the mid-1920s and continued to lead a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization as he represented Virginia as a United States Senator from 1933 until 1965. The Governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term The Byrd Organization (usually known as just "the Organization" was a Political machine led by former Governor and U The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar.

Financial conditions in Virginia during his youth conditioned his thinking on fiscal matters throughout his life. He is best remembered for his austere pay-as-you-go financial policies, and dissuasive positions against racial desegregation of the public schools, advocating a policy of massive resistance that led to closure of some public school systems in Virginia between 1959 and 1964. Desegregation is the process of ending Racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite meanings depending on the location of usage in the United States, Australia and Massive Resistance was a policy declared by US Senator Harry F

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Early life in Virginia after the Civil War

Harry Flood Byrd was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1887 and moved with his parents, Richard Evelyn Byrd and Eleanor Bolling Flood, to Winchester, Virginia the same year. Martinsburg is a city in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Winchester is an independent city located in the state of Virginia. Byrd belonged to one of Virginia's oldest families. As descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia, his ancestors included William Byrd II of Westover Plantation, who established Richmond, and Pocahontas. First Families of Virginia (FFV originated with colonists from England who primarily settled at Jamestown and along the James River and other navigable William Byrd II ( 28 March 1674 &ndash 26 August 1744) was a planter and Author from Charles City County, Virginia Westover Plantation is located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County Virginia. This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Pocahontas (c 1595 – March 21 1617 was a Native American woman who married an Englishman John Rolfe, and became a celebrity in London in the last year of her

Harry Flood Byrd was the brother of famed aviator Richard Evelyn Byrd. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN ( October 25, 1888 &ndash March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar He was a nephew of Henry De La Warr Flood, who served in the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress from Appomattox County, Virginia from 1901 to 1921 and Joel West Flood, also of Appomattox County. Userpolbot from http//bioguidecongressgov/scripts/biodisplaypl?index=F000210 The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses Appomattox County is a county located in the US state &mdash officially " Commonwealth " &mdash of Virginia. Joel West Flood ( August 2, 1894 &ndash April 27, 1964) (brother of Henry De La Warr Flood and uncle of Harry Flood Byrd a Representative Joel Flood served as Commonwealth Attorney of Appomattox County from 1919 to 1932, served in the U. S. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry St. George Tucker in 1932. Henry St George Tucker may refer to Henry St George Tucker Sr He became a long-time Federal Court Judge of the Fifth Judiciary Circuit (based in Richmond), serving from 1940 to 1964.

Young Harry Byrd's father was a wealthy apple grower in the Shenandoah Valley and publisher of the Winchester Star newspaper. The apple is the pomaceous Fruit of the apple tree Species Malus domestica in the Rose family Rosaceae. The Shenandoah Valley region of western Virginia and West Virginia is bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachian Winchester is an independent city located in the state of Virginia. He attended the public schools and Shenandoah Valley Academy in Winchester.

One of his biographers, Alden Hatch, has noted that, having been born only twenty-two years after the end of the American Civil War, he grew up in an era when "the Shenandoah Valley was still a place of genteel poverty . Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South . . . Harry Byrd never lacked food, but he had no money for luxuries. No one had any money. If a man got into debt, there was small chance of getting out of it. "

Even worse in Byrd's eyes was the dilemma of the state itself, which was also heavily in debt during Byrd's youth. Virginia beginning in 1816 had taken on debt to help finance many internal public improvements through the Virginia Board of Public Works before the Civil War. The Virginia Board of Public Works was a governmental agency which oversaw and helped finance the development of Virginia's internal transportation improvements during the 19th century Some of these improvements, which were primarily canals, turnpikes, and railroads, had been destroyed during the War, although the debt remained. Canals are artificial channels for water There are two types of canals water conveyance canals which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water and Waterways A toll road, (also known as a tollway, turnpike, pike, or toll highway, especially if it is constructed to Freeway standards Others had been made in the former portion of the state that separated to form the new State of West Virginia. West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by For several decades thereafter, Virginia and West Virginia disputed the new state's share of the Virginia government's debt, which had grown to $47 million by 1871 (immediately after the Reconstruction period).

The issue was finally settled in 1915, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that West Virginia owed Virginia $12,393,929. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. 50. The final installment of this sum was paid off in 1939. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. However, the issue of Virginia's public debt was far from resolution during Byrd's formative years.

Family

Byrd married Anne Douglas Beverage, a childhood friend, on October 7, 1913. They lived with her parents in Winchester until 1916, when he built a log cabin in Berryville at a family-owned orchard, and they moved there. Berryville is an Incorporated town in Clarke County, Virginia, United States. The Byrds had three sons: Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Bradshaw Byrd, and Richard Byrd, and one daughter, Westwood Beverly Byrd. Harry Flood Byrd Jr (born December 20, 1914) is an American Politician.

Career, pay-as-you-go

In 1903, he took over his father's newspaper, the Winchester Star. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The newspaper had slipped into debt under his father's ownership. The paper owed $2,500. 00 to its newsprint supplier, the Antietam Paper Company. The company refused to ship more newsprint on credit. Harry Byrd cut a deal to make daily cash payments in return for paper. As Byrd would later say, "when you have to hunt for them that way, you get to know how many cents there really are in a dollar. " He eventually bought the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record and several other papers in the Shenandoah Valley; his family still owns these papers today.

This was the first appearance of Byrd's famous "pay-as-you-go" policy. The experience, combined with other experiences of his youth, gave him a lifelong aversion to borrowing money and to debt of any kind.

"I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs," Byrd proclaimed. "The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation . . . and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. " In a fifty-year political career, no statement of Byrd's ever more succinctly spelled out his view of government. (Heinemann)

In 1908, at the age of 21, he became president of The Valley Turnpike Company, a 93-mile toll road between Winchester and Staunton. Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Valley Pike or Valley Turnpike is the traditional name given for the Indian trail and roadway which now is designated as U A toll road, (also known as a tollway, turnpike, pike, or toll highway, especially if it is constructed to Freeway standards Staunton ( is an Independent city within the confines of Augusta County in the commonwealth of Virginia. Earning $33 a month, he was required to drive the entire route at least twice a month to inspect it and arrange for repairs. As automobile traffic increased, he saw to it that road conditions were maintained within the revenues available. He served in that capacity until he became elected to state office seven years later. He would maintain an interest in roads and tourism throughout his career, always tempered however, by his pay-as you-go philosophy.

Virginia politics

In 1915, while still heading the Valley Turnpike Company, at the age of 28, Byrd was elected to the Virginia Senate. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Senate of Virginia is the Upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. That election was to begin his 50 years of service in various roles in the state and federal government.

At the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, as a new State Senator, Byrd was initially a progressive with an early interest in road improvements. The Virginia State Capitol is the seat of state government in the Commonwealth of Virginia located in Richmond, the third State Capital of Virginia. This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was a member of the Senate Committee on Roads, the Finance Committee, the Steering Committee, the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and the Committee of Schools and Colleges. He advocated a tax on gasoline as a fair method of raising revenue for road construction.

However, he first came to prominence in 1922, when he led a fight against using bonded indebtedness as a method to pay for new roads. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. He feared the state would sacrifice future flexibility by committing too many resources to paying off construction debt. In 1923, Byrd was sued by the Virginia Highway Contractors Association because he said their activities "by combination and agreements may be very detrimental" to the State. The court dismissed the suit, stating the criticism was legal, imposing all costs upon the association. The publicity helped him to be elected Governor of Virginia in November 1925. The Governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term Events in November All Saints' Day (formerly All Hallows Day a Christian holy day is celebrated on November 1, the day after Halloween Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

As governor, serving a term from 1925 to 1929, Byrd pushed through constitutional amendments that streamlined the state government and allowed for more efficient use of tax dollars. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He also made property taxes solely a county responsibility. When it was obvious that increased spending on road construction was not enough to "get Virginia out of the mud," he pushed through a secondary roads bill that gave the state responsibility for maintaining county roads. These measures made Byrd seem like a New South progressive at first. New South or New South Creed is a phrase that has been used intermittently since the American Civil War to describe the American South, in whole or in part However, many of his measures were more to the benefit of rural areas more interested in low taxes than better services. He instituted a "pay as you go" approach to spending, in which no state money was spent until enough taxes and fees came in to pay for it. Highways and tourism were his primary pursuits, says his biographer. "He advocated building roads to state shrines such as Jamestown and Monticello and called for historical markers along roadways, the first of which appeared in Fredericksburg. Jamestown, located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony, was founded on May 14 1607 Monticello (mɒntəˈtʃɛloʊ located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Fredericksburg is an Independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is located 50 miles south of Washington D He held regional meetings to bring about closer cooperation between state and county road officials, prophesying that the road system could be completed within ten years through such cooperation. . . . A tour of the highway system convinced him of the progress being made in extending the arterial network. Indeed, over 2,000 miles would be added to the system during Byrd's governorship, 1,787 of these miles in 1928. Road building was one way to keep the voters happy and prove the efficacy of pay-as-you-go. " (Heineman)

While he was governor, Byrd built up contacts with the "courthouse cliques" in most of Virginia's counties. He curried support from the five constitutional officers in those counties (sheriff, Commonwealth's attorney, clerk of the court, county treasurer, and commissioner of revenue). This formed the basis of the Byrd Organization, which dominated Virginia politics well into the 1960s. The Byrd Organization (usually known as just "the Organization" was a Political machine led by former Governor and U They carefully vetted candidates for statewide office, and Byrd only made an endorsement, or "nod," after consulting with them. Without his "nod," no one could win statewide office in Virginia. While he was governor, he shortened the ballot so that only three officials ran statewide: the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. This limited opportunities to challenge the candidates that he wanted to run. His secondary roads bill in 1932, which became known as the Byrd Road Act, did not apply to the state's independent cities. Byrd Road Act was an Act of Assembly passed in February 1932 by the Virginia General Assembly. An independent city is a City that does not form part of another general-purpose Local government entity

Education was not on his agenda and state spending for public schools remained very low until the 1960s. Byrd became one of the most vocal proponents of maintaining policies of racial segregation. Byrd authored and signed the "Southern Manifesto" condemning the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The Southern Manifesto was a document written in February-March 1956 by legislators in the United States Congress opposed to racial integration in public The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, 347 US 483 (1954 was a Landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier His call for "massive resistance" against desegregation of public schools led to many Virginia schools closing rather than be forced to integrate. Massive Resistance was a policy declared by US Senator Harry F

His leadership in state politics led to closure of some public school systems in Virginia between 1959 and 1964, most notably a five year gap in public education in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite meanings depending on the location of usage in the United States, Australia and Prince Edward County is a county located in the US state &mdash officially " Commonwealth " &mdash of Virginia. His extreme position in that issue contributed to the loss of power of the Byrd Organization in state politics.

National politics

In the 1928 U. S. presidential campaign, he supported Al Smith, the Democrat who was Governor of New York, and lost the state (and the election) to Republican Herbert Hoover. Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr, known in private and public life as Al Smith, ( December 30, 1873 - October 4, 1944) was elected Governor New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10 1874 &ndash October 20 1964 was the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933 Byrd himself was a favorite for the 1932 presidential nomination but switched to Franklin D. Roosevelt at the right moment and became an official in Roosevelt's successful campaign.

In 1933 Byrd was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate; he won reelection as a Democrat in 1933, 1934, 1940, 1946, 1952, 1958, and 1964. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Byrd and his colleague Carter Glass invoked senatorial courtesy to stop Roosevelt's nomination of Floyd H. Roberts to a federal judgeship in Virginia in 1939. Carter Glass ( January 4, 1858 &ndash May 28, 1946) was a Newspaper publisher and a American politician from Lynchburg Floyd H Roberts ( March 29, 1879 - January 29, 1967) was a Virginia lawyer state court judge and ever so briefly a United States federal Byrd broke with Roosevelt and became an opponent of the New Deal, but he was an internationalist and strongly supported Roosevelt's foreign policy. The New Deal was the name that United States President Franklin D As war loomed in 1941 Congress approved his proposal for a joint House-Senate committee to look into ways of eliminating nonessential expenditures. 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.

By the 1950s Byrd was one of the most influential senators, serving on the Armed Services Committee, and later as chairman of the Finance Committee. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The Committee on Armed Services is a Committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation's military, including the The US Senate Committee on Finance (or less formally Senate Finance Committee) is a Standing committee of the United States Senate. He often broke with the Democratic Party line, going so far as to refuse to endorse Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman in 1948. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He also refused to endorse Adlai Stevenson in 1952. This is about the mid-20th-century politician and diplomat for other American politicians so named see Adlai Stevenson (disambiguation. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He voted against public works bills, including the Interstate Highway System. Public works are the construction or engineering projects carried out by the State on behalf of the Community. The Dwight D Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System (or simply the Interstate System)

Although Byrd was never a candidate in a presidential election, he nevertheless received 134,157 votes in the 1956 election. Please DO NOT flip the colors --> The United States presidential election of 1956 saw a popular Dwight D In the 1960 election, he received 15 votes from unpledged electors: all eight from Mississippi, six of Alabama's 11 (the rest going to John F. Kennedy), and 1 from Oklahoma (the rest going to Richard Nixon). The United States presidential election of 1960 marked the end of Dwight D In United States presidential elections an unpledged elector is a member of the Electoral College who has not pledged to support any particular candidate for President Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America.

Byrd retired from the Senate for health reasons in November 1965. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. His son, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., was appointed his successor. Harry Flood Byrd Jr (born December 20, 1914) is an American Politician.

Death

Harry F. Byrd, Sr. died of brain cancer in 1966. A brain tumor is any intracranial Tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the Brain itself ( Neurons Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. He was interred in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Elbert L. Trinkle		 Governor of Virginia
February 1, 1926 – January 15, 1930		 Succeeded by
John G. Pollard
Preceded by
Claude A. Swanson		 United States Senator (Class 1) from Virginia
March 4, 1933 – November 10, 1965
Served alongside: E. Carter Glass, Thomas G. Burch, A. Willis Robertson		 Succeeded by
Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
Preceded by
Eugene D. Millikin		 Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
1955–1965		 Succeeded by
Russell B. Long

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