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Letter: Reid’s status good, but not unique

Tuesday, April 27, 1999 | 2:33 a.m.

I also heard this several times on the local television stations. This is great and I am happy for him getting whip, but I don't think this is the highest ranking a Nevada senator has ever attained.

Not too long ago my grandfather told me he remembers that in 1933 Sen. Key Pittman, a Nevada Democrat, was president pro tempore of the Senate. Wouldn't that make him the highest ranking Nevadan ever in the Senate?

Pittman was in the Senate from 1913 to 1940.

MARIO PERKINS

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