| 词条 | Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr. |
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| birthname = Richard Evelyn Byrd | image = Richard E Byrd 1912.jpg | image_size = 220px | order = 40th | office = Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates | term_start = January 8, 1908 | term_end = January 14, 1914 | predecessor = William D. Cardwell | successor = Edwin P. Cox | office2 = Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Frederick and Winchester | term_start2 = January 10, 1906 | term_end2 = January 14, 1914 | predecessor2 = Edwin C. Jordan, II | successor2 = John M. Steck | birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|8|13}} | birth_place = Austin, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|10|23|1860|8|13}} | death_place = Richmond, Virginia, U.S. | party = Democratic | spouse = Eleanor Bolling Flood | children = | alma_mater = University of Virginia {{small|(B.A.)}} University of Maryland {{small|(LL.B.)}} | profession = Farmer, Attorney, Newspaper Publisher, Politician | signature = RE Byrd Sr signature.png }} Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr. (August 13, 1860 – October 23, 1925) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and newspaperman. Early and family lifeHe was the first son born to Jennie (Rivers) and her husband William Byrd, had who became an adjutant general of the state of Texas, and born in Austin, Travis County, Texas months after the American Civil War had begun.[1] After the war, his parents returned to Virginia and lived with his grandparents. His grandfather and namesake, also Richard E. Byrd (1801-1872), was a politician and by then former slaveholder (the elder Richard E. Byrd owned 26 enslaved people in Frederick County in 1860; and possibly more in neighboring Clarke County). The elder Byrd had been one of the representatives of Frederick, Hampshire and Morgan Counties in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851 and had also served in Virginia General Assembly.[2] His great grandfather was Thomas Taylor Byrd, who used enslaved labor to work plantations, mostly in what became Clarke County after it was split from Frederick County. His great-great grandfather William Byrd had served in the British army during the American Revolutionary War, then moved to northwestern Virginia. This Richard E. Byrd graduated from the University of Virginia and later received a law degree from the University of Maryland. This Harry E. Byrd married Eleanor Bolling Flood, also descended from the First Families of Virginia, in Martinsburg, West Virginia on September 15, 1886. They would have sons Harry Flood Byrd (1887–1966); Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957) and Thomas Bolling Byrd (1890–1968).[3] CareerByrd moved to Winchester Virginia from West Virginia in 1887 and became a wealthy apple grower in the Shenandoah Valley and published the Winchester Star newspaper. He represented Winchester in the Virginia House of Delegates, and served as that body's Speaker from 1908 until 1914. He was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia from 1914 until 1920. Death and legacyOne of his sons, Richard, became famous as a naval aviator who led an expedition to the South Pole; another, Harry, would serve as Governor of Virginia and in the United States Senate. References1. ^188- U.S. Federal Census for District 45 of Winchester, Frederick County Virginia p. 44 of 52 2. ^Dictionary of Virginia Biography Richard Evelyn Byrd available www.lva.gov/public/dvd/bio.asp?b=Byrd_Richard_Evelyn_1801-1872 3. ^https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18776924/richard-evelyn-byrd
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