Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.

Accession number: 1989.26.1

Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. (1887–1966), kingpin of Virginia politics in the mid-twentieth century, emphasized pay-as-you-go financing and limited government. During his term as governor, 1926–30, he reorganized and streamlined the state bureaucracy. Portrait by Helen Schuyler Bailey after an original pastel by Louis Lupas.

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