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Byrd Named To Senate Gov. John Garland Pollard had no difficulty in choosing a replacement tor Swanson. He promptly appointed former Gov. Harry F. Byrd. Sr. Sen. Bvrd, after a brief interregnum. had succeeded Mr. Martin as the acknowledged chieftain of the Democratic Organization. Sen. Byrd had threatened to oppose Sen. Swanson when the Senate seat came up for election in 1934.
When the elder Byrd retired because ot tailing health in 1965, Gov. Albertis Harrison appointed his son. Harry Jr., to succeed his father. The younger Byrd is, of course, stepping down at the end of his term in January.
Thus, of the eight men who have served in the U.S. Senate from Virginia between the tenures of the last two to be elected by the legislature and the 1982 election, only four actually won their office by popular vote. The remaining four were initially appointed by the incumbent governor.
The 1982 election marks the first time in the history of the state that the occupant of the so-called "Byrd seat" first won it by the will of the people.
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