Yeah, Byrd was already in Congress (the House) when my mother was born, and my dad was and infant.
He's just slightly younger than Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez.
Newly uncovered archaeological evidence suggest that when the world's oldest legislative body, the Althing (national parliament of Iceland).was founded in 930 A.D. at Þingvellir, Robert Byrd attended the opening session. A Norwegian Parliament scroll recently translated into modern English states the following: "Then Robert, the White Robed figure, from the house of the Bird, took his solemn oath. He spoke of the tyranny of the King for defending our people against the scourge of the barbarians, saying they posed no threat to peace despite killing 300 of our fellow kinsman. Later he spoke out against the darker skinned men among us, saying they were beast people not worthy to enter this sacred chamber. And then, before all of us assembled, Robert napped"