Robert C. Byrd, who used his record tenure as a United States senator to fight for the primacy of the legislative branch of government and to build a modern West Virginia with vast amounts of federal ...

In addition to being the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, Robert Byrd was a talented old time fiddler. In this archival tape, Sen. Byrd talks about how the fiddle played an important role in ...

History shows Senator Byrd's marathon farewell is extraordinary. July 8, 2010 -- Sen. Robert Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat, served 51 years in the United States Senate and, at his death, was the ...

West Virginia's Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd is 90 years old. He's in a wheelchair after a recent fall. And he has two words for people who wonder whether he's still up to his duties as Appropriations ...

About 10,000 men and women have served in the United States Congress. Robert C. Byrd, who died Monday at age 92, served longer than all the rest — more than 57 years, six in the House and 51 in the ...

Robert Carlyle Byrd is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia, and a member and former Senate Leader of the Democratic Party. Byrd has been a Senator since January 3, 1959 and is the ...

Robert Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator in history, died today at a hospital in Virginia. The Democrat from West Virginia was 92 years old and had been in frail health for several years. In more ...