Robert Carlyle Byrd (November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010)
was a United States Senator from West Virginia, and a member and former Senate Leader of the Democratic Party. Byrd was a Senator from January 3, 1959, until his death, and was the longest-serving Senator as well as the longest-serving member in congressional history. He was the Dean of the Senate from 2003 to 2010. He was also the oldest member of the current Congress at the time of his death (Strom Thurmond was the oldest to serve in Congressional history), and was the first person to serve uninterrupted for half a century as a U.S. senator.
In Memory
Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd (November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010)
On June 27, 2010, Byrd became ill and was admitted to a Washington-area hospital for what was assumed to be heat stroke and dehydration due to temperatures in the D.C. area that had hovered near 100 degrees in the preceding days. However, other medical conditions emerged and Byrd was described as "seriously ill". Robert Byrd died the next day at age 92.
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