Harry Reid, political pugilist and longtime Senate majority leader, dies

The Hill

BY ALEXANDER BOLTON – 12/28/21 08:13 PM EST

Harry Reid, one of the Senate’s longest serving majority leaders and a Democrat who played a central role in enacting President Obama’s biggest legislative accomplishments, died Tuesday at 82. 

The death was announced by longtime political reporter Jon Ralston, who called Reid “probably the most important elected official in Nevada history.”

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