Former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, Harry Reid, died on Thursday at the age of 82, his wife Landra Reid announced. “I am heartbroken to announce the passing of my husband, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,” Reid said of her husband in a statement, adding that the late Senator had passed away “peacefully this afternoon, surrounded by our family, following a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer.” “We greatly appreciate the outpouring of support from so many over these past few years. We are especially grateful for the doctors and nurses that cared for him. Please know that meant the world to him,” his wife said. Born in Searchlight, an isolated mining town in the Battle Born State, in 1939, Reid went on to graduate from Southern Utah State College in 1959, and then Utah State University in 1961, before attending George Washington School of Law where he graduated …