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Harry Mason Reid Jr. was born on December 2, 1939, in Searchlight, Nevada, the third of four sons of Harry Reid, a rock miner, and Inez Orena (Jaynes) Reid, a laundress for local brothels. [4] [5] At that time, Searchlight was a small, impoverished town. [6] [7] His father died of suicide in 1972, at the age of 58, when Harry was 32 years old.
Reid made headlines in May 2005 when he said of George W. Bush, "The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser." Reid later apologized for these comments. [26] Reid also called Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas an "embarrassment" [27] and referred to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as a ...
Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. Reid died Tuesday, “peacefully” and surrounded by friends “following a courageous ...
The political kingmaker retired in 2017 after having played key roles in shaping both the Senate and Nevada politics.
Harry Reid: 494,805 61% Richard Ziser: 284,640 35% Thomas L. Hurst Libertarian: 9,559 1% David K. Schumann Independent American 6,001 1% Gary Marinch Natural Law: 2,095
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. Reid died Tuesday, “peacefully” and surrounded by ...
As majority leader from 2007 to 2015, he kept the Senate in Democratic hands through a volatile era of polarizing health care and economic policy, recession and war, and with a Republican and then ...
Harry Reid International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS), formerly known as McCarran International Airport, is an international airport serving the Las Vegas Valley, a metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Nevada.