Harry Reid, former Senate leader, dead at 82

 

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a direct and dogged figure who converted the lessons of a hardscrabble childhood into a leadership role in national Democratic politics, died Tuesday. He was 82. A former boxer who developed a rough-and-tumble approach to politics, the Nevada Democrat served five terms in the U.S. Senate and would be a particularly pivotal figure on Capitol Hill in two administrations, as an opposition figure pushing and prodding President George W. Bush and then as the Senate Majority Leader working to help President Barack Obama realize his agenda. Reid, who was the longest-serving senator in Nevada‘s history, had been battling pancreatic cancer. Read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/harry-reid-nevada-senate-leader-obit-033261

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