Robert Byrd — American Politician born on November 20, 1917,

Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the longest-serving U.S. Senator and, at the time of his death, the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress. Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both houses of the state legislature and both houses of Congress... (wikipedia)