Senator Robert C. Byrd Dead at 92 7.96K Jeff Neumann 06/28/10 04:59AM Filed to: and now he's dead and now he's dead Politics Robert Byrd Congress Washington Top West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd died today at age 92, after being hospitalized for heat exhaustion and severe dehydration last week. Byrd was the longest serving member of Congress in US history. [Washington Post]