Statement from President Barack Obama upon learning of W.V. Senator Robert Byrd's death: I was saddened to hear this morning that the people of West Virginia have lost a true champion, the United ...

Hope Mills—Robert Gentry Byrd, Sr., 81, died July 31, 2021. Robert was preceded in death by his mother, Hattie Dees Byrd, his father, Paul C. Byrd, many uncles and aunts and cousins, and his infant ...