Harry F. Byrd

Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia, was an American newspaper publisher, and political leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia. He was the leader of the conservative coalition in the United States Senate, which largely blocked most liberal legislation after 1937.

Harry Flood Byrd was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1887 and moved with his parents, Eleanor Bolling and Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr., to Winchester, Virginia the same year. Byrd was a descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia his ancestors included William Byrd II of Westover Plantation, who established Richmond, and Pocahontas.

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