There appears to be some ignorance in the above question.What about Speaker of the House Robert Boyd?
Robert Byrd was a congressman before being elected to the Senate. No record of Speaker Robert Boyd or Byrd.
"It has emerged throughout my life to haunt and embarrass me, and has taught me in a very graphic way what one major mistake can do to one's life, career and reputation," Byrd wrote in his 2005 autobiography. "I displayed very bad judgment, due to immaturity and a lack of seasoned reasoning."
Before his death, in 2010, Byrd was the longest-serving senator in the country's history. Throughout his career he made many attempts to amend for drawing in 150 members to the Klan, and for attaining the position of "Exalted Cyclops."
Those attempts led the National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People to issue a statement in praise of Byrd upon his death, and for Clinton, when she was secretary of state at the time, to comment on his passing. She started the video commemoration by saying, "Today our country has lost a true American original, my friend and mentor Robert C. Byrd." Clinton also said that Byrd had been "the heart" of the U.S. Senate.
Still, unlike white supremacist and former Klan leader David Duke—who praised Trump following the president's press conference Tuesday—Byrd renounced his experience with the hate group.