Photos: Harry Reid through the years (1939-2021)
Here's a look back at the life and career of former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who died Tuesday at 82 after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid tips his hat during a fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party on Nov. 17, 2019, in Las Vegas. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters in the Capitol after winning election by his Democratic peers as the new Senate minority leader on Nov. 16, 2004, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., delivers a speech at the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada discusses election results during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., leans on a stack of documents pertaining to campaign finance reform during a Capitol Hill news conference on Dec. 3, 1996, where the Democratic leadership for the 105th Congress was announced. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, talks about the yearlong tax cut extension bill Democrats passed by a near party-line 51-48 vote at the Capitol in Washington, on July 25, 2012. From back left are Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Outgoing Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid speaks with reporters along with Nevada's newly elected Congressional Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Vice President Joe Biden, left, hugs Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., during a ceremony to unveil a portrait of Reid on Capitol Hill, Dec. 8, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid arrives for a caucus organizing meeting to elect leadership for the 115th Congress, Nov. 16, 2016, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
This image provided by C-SPAN2 shows retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada giving his final speech on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 8, 2016. (C-SPAN2 via AP)
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media after the Senate Policy Luncheon on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., listens during a media availability after the Senate Policy Luncheon on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., second from right, looks at a portrait of himself during a ceremony to honor his service in the Senate, on Capitol Hill, Dec. 8, 2016, in Washington. From left, Sen. Chuck Schemer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Reid, and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, applauds Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., during a ceremony to unveil a portrait of Reid, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In this Dec. 8, 2016, file photo then-Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In this April 3, 2018, file photo, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks during a lecture series at the University of Nevada, Reno. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
In this June 20, 2016, photo, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., left, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., listen as Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, center, speaks during a media availability on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid beside Democratic presidential candidates, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid fills out his ballot at an early voting site at the East Las Vegas library, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
In this Feb. 19, 2020, file photo former Sen. Harry Reid listens during an interview in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, leave a closed-door Democratic policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
