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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.
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 ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a master parliamentarian who represented Nevada in the Senate from 1987 to 2017, has died at 82.
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 ...
Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. The combative The post Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader, dies at 82 ...
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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 ...
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 ...