--- title: Senator Harry Reid Retires: Latest Step in a Career of Planning Ahead description: The Senate minority leader will not seek reelection in 2016. canonical: https://time.com/3761397/harry-reid-history/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T14:42:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:30:03.374Z article:section: History og:title: Reid's Early Retirement Shows How He Likes to Plan Ahead og:description: The Senate minority leader said he won't seek re-election early. og:url: https://time.com/3761397/harry-reid-history/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8882e7a4ba801aa/6987859235ba6f5603c07c5c/reid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Harry Reid og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Reid's Early Retirement Shows How He Likes to Plan Ahead twitter:description: The Senate minority leader said he won't seek re-election early. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8882e7a4ba801aa/6987859235ba6f5603c07c5c/reid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Harry Reid's Early Retirement Announcement Shows How Much He Likes to Plan Ahead > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 27, 2015 2:42 PM UTC  Harry Reid on July 10, 2000 Harry Reid on July 10, 2000 Douglas Graham—Roll Call/Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 27, 2015 2:42 PM UTC By [announcing early](http://time.com/3761285/harry-reid-retirement/) that he will not run for reelection next fall, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has freed up party resources that might have been spent on what would have been a tough race for other elections — a major reason behind his early decision, as he [told](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?%5Fr=1) the New York _Times_. That kind of planning ahead is not unusual for the minority leader. Reid’s personal background might not peg him as a super planner: as TIME explained in a 2004 profile, he was once an amateur boxer, the son of “a hard-drinking gold miner.” (His mother’s pay came from taking in laundry from brothels.) But he devoted himself to finding stability, including through a conversion to Mormonism, and ended up the kind of person who famously carries around notecards on which to record every promise he makes, with the idea that he’ll later be able to record when he fulfills them. One of the best illustrations of that forward-looking nature was explained in that same 2004 article, in which TIME’s Douglas Waller laid out how the Senator prepared for a filibuster: --- > “” --- One thing he can’t plan, of course, is the one thing that many Washington-watchers will wonder most: [who will take his place](http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1971255-1,00.html) as the leader of the Senate Democrats. **_Read the full 2004 story, here in the TIME archives:_** [Herding the Democrats](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,995647,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3761397/harry-reid-history/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3761397/harry-reid-history/"},"headline":"Harry Reid's Early Retirement Announcement Shows How Much He Likes to Plan Ahead","datePublished":"2015-03-27T14:42:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:30:03.374Z","description":"The Senate minority leader will not seek reelection in 2016","url":"https://time.com/3761397/harry-reid-history/","keywords":["Congress","Senate","politics","Harry Reid"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8882e7a4ba801aa/6987859235ba6f5603c07c5c/reid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8882e7a4ba801aa/6987859235ba6f5603c07c5c/reid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Harry Reid","caption":"Harry Reid","creditText":"Douglas Graham—Roll Call/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3761397/harry-reid-history/","name":"Harry Reid's Early Retirement Announcement Shows How Much He Likes to Plan Ahead"}}]}] ```