Former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, Harry Reid, died on Thursday at the age of 82, his wife Landra Reid announced.
“I am heartbroken to announce the passing of my husband, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,” Reid said of her husband in a statement, adding that the late Senator had passed away “peacefully this afternoon, surrounded by our family, following a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer.”
