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eppur_se_muova

(36,263 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2013, 10:11 PM Oct 2013

"Harry Reid, who was himself once a capitol police officer ...

Heard that on the news.

1961 – Reid starts working nights as a Capitol Police Officer to support his young family while he attends law school at George Washington University.

http://www.harryreid.com/ee/index.php/content/pages/biography


Quite a bio; take a few seconds to look it over.
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"Harry Reid, who was himself once a capitol police officer ... (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Oct 2013 OP
From the Hary Reid Wiki BIO page Tx4obama Oct 2013 #1
Harry has a modesty problem ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2013 #2

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
1. From the Hary Reid Wiki BIO page
Thu Oct 3, 2013, 10:14 PM
Oct 2013

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Early life, education, and early career

Reid was born in Searchlight, Nevada, the third of four sons of Inez Orena (née Jaynes), a laundress, and Harry Vincent Reid, a miner who committed suicide with a gunshot to the head in 1972 at the age of 58 when Harry was 32 years old.[1][2] His paternal grandmother was an English immigrant from Darlaston, Staffordshire. Reid's boyhood home was a shack with no indoor toilet, hot water or telephone.[1][3] Searchlight had no high school, so Reid boarded with relatives 40 miles away in Henderson, Nevada, to attend Basic High School[1] where he played football, and was an amateur boxer.[4] While at Basic High he met future Nevada governor Mike O'Callaghan, who was a teacher there, and served as his boxing coach. Reid attended Southern Utah University and graduated from Utah State University where he double majored in political science and history.[5] Reid also minored in economics from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.[6] He then went to George Washington University Law School earning a J.D. while working for the United States Capitol Police.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid

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