John C. Stennis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John C. Stennis

American politician

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1901

Place of Birth: Kemper County, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 23-Apr-1995

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About John C. Stennis

  • John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was an American politician who served as a U.S.
  • Senator from the state of Mississippi.
  • He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member for his last eight years.
  • He retired from the Senate in 1989, and is, to date, the last Democrat to have been a U.S.
  • Senator from Mississippi. While attending law school, Stennis won a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives, holding office from 1928 to 1932.
  • After serving as a prosecutor and state judge, Stennis won a special election to fill the Senate vacancy that arose following the death of Theodore G.
  • Bilbo.
  • He won election to a full term in 1952 and remained in the Senate until he declined to seek re-election in 1988.
  • Stennis became the first Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and also chaired the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations.
  • He also served as President pro tempore of the Senate from 1987 to 1989.
  • In 1973, President Richard Nixon proposed the Stennis Compromise, whereby the hard-of-hearing Stennis would be allowed to listen to, and summarize, the Watergate tapes, but this idea was rejected by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Stennis was a zealous supporter of racial segregation.
  • He signed the Southern Manifesto, which called for resistance to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.
  • Board of Education.
  • He also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
  • He supported the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 but voted against the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Day as a holiday.

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