ROBERT C. BYRD - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 34299

ROBERT C. BYRD
Photo inscribed and signed as Senate Majority Leader.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "With best Wishes/To: Edward N. Bomsey ~/Sincerely yours,/Robert C. Byrd/Majority Leader/U.S. Senate". B/w, 8x10. Robert C. Byrd (1917-2010) represented West Virginia in the U.S. Senate from 1959 until his death in 2010 - he was the longest serving member of the United States Congress in history. He has served as Majority Leader (1977-1980, 1987-1988), Minority Leader (1981-1986) and President Pro Tempore of the Senate (third in line for the Presidency, 1989-1995). Between 1989 and 2009, whenever the Democratic Party held a majority, Byrd chaired the power Appropriations Committee. He had clout on other important committees too: Armed Services, Rules and Budget. A master of parliamentary procedures, Byrd knew just how to exploit arcane Senate rules to achieve his goals and stymie opponents. A conservative when first elected, Byrd moved gradually to the left during his Senate tenure. The Americans for Democratic Action, whose scores on Senate voting records are a good measure of liberalism, had rated Byrd at 16% in 1964 (when he filibustered civil rights legislation), rising to 95% in 2005. Byrd was the last surviving Senator to have voted to admit a new State to the Union. Fourteen of his colleagues had not even been born when Robert Byrd entered the Senate. Three file nicks at blank right edge. Fine condition.