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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.
On the Senate floor, Reid quoted from John F. Kennedy's 1963 State of the Union speech [75] by saying "the mere absence of war is not Peace". [76] According to The New York Times, the "Senate approved the use of military force by a vote of 52 to 47" with ten out of the fifty-five Senate Democrats voting in support. [77]
The political kingmaker retired in 2017 after having played key roles in shaping both the Senate and Nevada politics. Harry Reid, longtime Senate Democratic leader, dies at 82 Skip to main content
Harry Reid (d. 2021) was a former Democratic senior United States senator from Nevada (1987–2017), Senate Majority Leader (2007–2015), and Senate Minority Leader (2015-2017). Retiring in January 2017, he did not file to run in the 2016 Senate elections.
Reid's family said in a statement that he died Tuesday afternoon after a "four-year battle with pancreatic cancer." "We are so proud of the legacy he leaves behind both on the national stage and ...
Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. ... or entirely trusted in the increasingly polarized Senate. Democrats grumbled about ...
In the last years of his life, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urged Democrats to build on his legacy of ending the filibuster.
Former Sen. Harry Reid was remembered Wednesday as a “legendary leader,” as colleagues and friends gathered at the U.S. Capitol to pay tribute to a hardscrabble Democrat who rose from poverty ...