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His obituary in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune described him as a 33rd degree Freemason and the Knights Templar. [33] [34] Ezra Ames (1768–1836), American portrait painter [6] Oliver Ames (1831–1895), 35th governor of Massachusetts. Primary lodge membership unknown, but made honorary member of Columbian Lodge of Boston. [10]
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Byrd and his colleague Carter Glass invoked senatorial courtesy to stop President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's nomination of Floyd H. Roberts to a federal judgeship in Virginia in 1939. Byrd broke with Roosevelt and became an opponent of the New Deal, but he was an internationalist and strongly supported Roosevelt's foreign policy. As war loomed ...
Nearly solidly Democratic before 1900, the county began voting Republican in statewide elections around the beginning of the 20th century but was a swing county. In the 1920s it became solidly Republican at a statewide level, with the exception of Democratic local hero Harry F. Byrd and his son.
Gregory M. Howard is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church East End in Newport News, Virginia. He has also served as pastor of Union Branch Baptist Church in Chesterfield, Virginia [ 1 ] and Jerusalem Baptist Church in Sparta, Virginia.
Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr. (August 13, 1860 – October 23, 1925) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and newspaperman. He was the father of politician Harry Byrd and aviator Richard Byrd Jr. Early and family life
Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (December 20, 1914 – July 30, 2013) was an American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and then represented Virginia in the United States Senate, succeeding his father, Harry F. Byrd Sr.
William Byrd I (1652 – December 4, 1704) was an English-born Virginia colonist and politician. He came from the Shadwell section of London, where his father John Bird (c. 1620–1677) was a goldsmith.