1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1988-1989:
Jack Kemp (Republican)
1989-1997:
Harry Reid (Democratic)
'88 (with Joe Biden) def. Jack Kemp (Republican)
'92 (with Walter Mondale) def. H. John Heinz (Republican), H. Ross Perot (Independent)
1997-2001:
Ann Richards (Democratic)
'96 (with Dick Celeste) def. Pat Buchanan (Republican)
2001-2005:
John McCain (Republican)
'00 (with Elizabeth Warren) def. Ann Richards (Democratic), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)
2005-2013:
Xavier Becerra (Democratic)
'04 (with Katie McGinty) def. John McCain (Republican), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)
'08 (with Katie McGinty) def. Helen Chenoweth (Republican)
2013-2021:
Sarah Palin (Republican)
'12 (with Pat McCrory) def. Katie McGinty (Democratic), Harold Ford Jr. (Independent)
'16 (with Pat McCrory) def. Brian Schweitzer (Democratic)
2021-:
Mandela Barnes (Democratic)
'20 (with Rory Reid) def. Pat McCrory (Republican)
HENDERSON - Former President Harry Reid, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for several years, died Tuesday at his home in Henderson, Nevada. He was 82.
Reid has often been referred to as the father of the modern Democratic Party. In his hardscrabble youth in isolated Searchlight, an embroidered pillowcase with the face of Franklin Roosevelt was one of few adornments; as President, he worked to modernize the party, bringing together labor unions, youth organizations, and traditional party institutions into the "Reid Machine", which helped ensure that the Democratic Party would hold unified control of the Presidency and Congress for fifteen years after his service, compared to only four for the Republicans.
As President of the United States, elected in 1988 in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal, Reid presided over the fall of the Soviet Union. Though some have criticized his full-throated and aggressive support for "peaceful" nationalist and liberal movements as counterproductive, his work with Secretary of State Philip Habib and General Secretary Gorbachev to negotiate the Athens Principles and formation of the Union of Sovereign States won him, Gorbachev, and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Additionally, he presided over the Second Korean Crisis, lending his support both to the Olympic Revolution and to the Korean Sole Authority policy. Statues of Reid stand in, among other places, Moscow, Kyiv, Seoul, and Pyongyang.
At home, he helped create the Federal Insurance Program, expanded into Universal Medicare in 2007, and reformed labor law to protect farmworkers' right to organize and establish "card check" systems for organizing unions. He also helped to create the modern transnet by pushing for the Gore Act and signing it into law, establishing the National Telecommunications Authority to standardize systems and fund both research and physical infrastructure, and massively expanded protected lands. However, he also pressed for the 1989 Omnibus Crime Prevention Act, the 1991 Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act, and the 1992 Defense of Marriage Act, all of which Reid would later say he regretted; ironically, many of the more stringent provisions thereof were repealed by progressive Congressional majorities made possible by the "Reid Machine".
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Landra Gould, and five children, including sitting Vice President Rory Reid.