Here is a look at the life of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic Senator from Nevada.

Personal: Birth date: December 2, 1939

Birth place: Searchlight, Nevada

Birth name: Harry Mason Reid

Father: Harry Reid Sr., miner

Mother: Inez (Jaynes) Reid

Marriage: Landra (Gould) Reid (1959-present)

Children: Key, 1974; Josh, 1971; Leif, 1968; Rory, 1962; Lana, 1961

Education: Southern Utah State College, A.S., 1959; Utah State University, B.S., 1961; George Washington School of Law, J.D., 1964

Religion: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Other Facts: Senate Majority Leader is the highest elected office achieved by a Mormon in U.S. history.

He was a middleweight amateur boxer.

Reid and his wife both converted to the LDS church in college. He had been raised nonreligious and his wife was raised Jewish.

Timeline: 1961-1964 - U.S. Capitol police officer (while in law school).

1964-1966 - City Attorney for Henderson, Nevada.

1969-1970 - Member of the Nevada State Assembly.

1970-1974 - Wins election as the youngest lieutenant governor in Nevada history, at age 30.

1974 - Resigns as lieutenant governor to run for the U.S. Senate, but loses to Paul Laxalt.

1977-1981 - Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission.

January 1983-January 1987 - U.S. Representative from Nevada's 1st District.

November 4, 1986 - Wins election to the U.S. Senate.

November 3, 1992 - Wins a second term in the Senate.

November 3, 1998 - Re-elected to the U.S. Senate.

January 1999-January 2005 - Democratic party Whip in the Senate.

November 2, 2004 - Re-elected to the U.S. Senate.

2005-2007 - Senate Minority Leader.