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    'The guy from Searchlight': Former Senate leader Harry Reid is dead at 82

    Born into poverty in Searchlight, Nev., the one-time amateur boxer served in Congress for 34 years — first in the House and, later, for three decades in the Senate.
    by Susan Davis Dec 28, 2021 5 minutes
    Updated December 28, 2021 at 10:33 PM ET

    Former Sen. Harry Reid has left the ring.

    The Nevada Democrat, a one-time amateur boxer who brought a pugilist approach to politics, died Tuesday afternoon after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer, his wife said in a statement. He was 82.

    "We are so proud of the legacy he leaves behind both on the national stage and [in] his beloved Nevada," Landra Reid said in the statement. They'd been married for 62 years.

    President Biden called Reid one of history's "all-time great" Senate majority leaders. "And for Harry, it wasn't about power for power's sake. It was about the power to do right for the people," Biden said.

    The current Senate leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, said of Reid in a statement:

    "He was tough-as-nails strong, but caring and compassionate, and always went out of his

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