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initiate major reforms of Virginia's political structure during his term as Governor from 1926 to 1930 and was appointed to succeed Claude Swanson as Virginia's Juniof United States Senator in 1932 upon Senator Swanson's appointment as Secretary of the Navy by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Dr. Heinemann's presentation will focus, in part, on Byrd's numerous connections to Rappahannock County. He was a confidante of William Meade. Fletcher, who served as a member of the Virginia State Corporation Commission in the 1920s and 1930s, and Wade Massie, who was a close associate of Senator Byrd in the apple business and who was appointed to the State Highway Commission by then Governor Byrd in the 1920. James W. Fletcher, the son of William Meade Fletcher and the former chairman of the Seventh District Democratic Committee and chairman of the Rappahannock County Democratic Committee, was also a close associate of Senator Byrd.
Professor Heinemann's presentation will be of interest to any citizen of Rappahannock County and the surrounding area who has an interest in the history of Virginia from the time of Senator Byrd's election as a State Senator in 1913 until his death in 1965. Nobody who aspires to an understanding of Virginia's politics can achieve this objective without an understanding of Harry Byrd's political organization and its impact on Virginia's politics and governance.
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