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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Robert Byrd tied Carl Hayden's record Tuesday for longest service in the U.S. Senate.
That means Wednesday the 92-year-old West Virginia Democrat will have spent more time in the upper house than anyone else in U.S. history, Politico reported. Hayden, D-Ariz., retired in 1969 after eight terms.
Byrd has changed during his 54 years, 10 1/2 months in the Senate. The former Ku Klux Klan leader who filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act endorsed Barack Obama during the 2008 battle for the Democratic presidential nomination and spoke against the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
"Sen. Byrd's life -- like most of ours -- has been the struggle of warring impulses, a twining of darkness and light," Obama said in "The Audacity of Hope."
One thing that has not changed is Byrd's dedication to bringing federal funding to West Virginia. Former Rep. Ken Hechler, D-W.Va., called him the state's "No. 1 economic development officer."
"I have strived to provide the people of West Virginia the best representation possible each of the 20,774 days which I have served in the Congress of the United States," he said in a statement.
His current, and ninth term, ends in January 2013.
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