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Former Senate leader Harry Reid dead at 82

29 December 2021
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2021-12-29 14:38

Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada's longest-serving member of Congress, has died at the age of 82.

Landra Reid says her husband died peacefully Tuesday after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer.  The combative former boxer-turned-lawyer was widely-acknowledged as one of toughest dealmakers in Congress. Over a 34-year career in Washington, Reid thrived on behind-the-scenes wrangling and kept the Senate controlled by his party through two presidents, a crippling recession and the Republican takeover of the House after the 2010 elections. He retired in 2016 after an accident left him blind in one eye. 

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