An irony struck Sen. Tim Kaine as he argued for his voting rights bill on the Senate floor Wednesday. Here he was, in a seat once held by infamous segregationist Harry F. Byrd Sr., who had used ...

WINCHESTER, Va. — Former U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. was remembered at his funeral Saturday for his positive demeanor and devotion to his country. Byrd’s funeral was held at Christ Episcopal ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent who began his career as a staunch segregationist and preached fiscal restraint in Washington long before it ...

Former Sen. Harry Byrd, I-Va., once said getting elected as an independent is the hardest way to make it to the U.S. Senate, but if you can get to the Capitol that way, it's the best way to serve.

When former U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Virginia died in “Courtfield,” his hilltop mansion in Winchester, Va., last January, a dynasty went with him. Byrd, 98, was a charter member of the ...

Only once before, and then only by a slim plurality, had a U.S. senator been elected as an independent, and pundits had given Byrd little chance of repeating the accomplishment. “Young Harry is ...

RICHMOND — A statue of Harry F. Byrd Sr. sits right on Capitol Square. Legislators pass it at least twice a day as they shuffle between their offices and the chambers of the House and Senate.

Robert Byrd was a Member of this nation’s Congress for more than a quarter of the time it has existed, and longer than a quarter of today’s sitting Senators and the President of the United ...

Harry F. Byrd Jr., a scion of Virginia’s most potent political dynasty who succeeded his father both as a U.S. senator and as a defender of old-time fiscal conservatism and the last vestiges of ...

Former Virginia Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent who began his career as a staunch segregationist and preached fiscal restraint in Washington long before it became ...

Former U.S. Senator Harry Byrd Jr. died Tuesday at his home in Winchester. Byrd, 98, served as Virginia’s U.S. Senator from 1965 to1983. He moved to Washington to replace his father in the U.S ...