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In November of 1976, U.S. Senator Harry F, Byrd, Jr., received the greatest popular vote ever accorded any elected official in the history of Virginia politics.
Early in the 1982 campaign for his successor in office, it appeared to those of conservative persuasion in Virginia that both major party candidates endorsed the political philosophy of Senator Byrd and that Virginia’s new representative in the United States Senate would continue to be marked by the senior Senator’s particular brand of conservatism.
However, in April of 1982, and subsequently thereto, Owen Pickett was forced to abandon his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate, mainly through the efforts of a small group in the Richmond area who objected to Pickett's friendly relationship with Harry Byrd and his philosophy, (Times-Dispatch 3-25 and 4-19) and that of speaker A. L. Philpott (Times-Dispatch 4-18). This
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