John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 - Apr 23, 1995) was a U.S. Senator from the country of Mississippi. He was a Democratwho served in the Senate for over 41 period, comely its most grownup member for his measure octet age. He retired from the Senate in 1989.
Family
Stennis was the son of Jazzman Howell Stennis and Margaret Cornelia Adams. His great-grandfather Evangelist Stenhouse emigrated toGreenville, Southern Carolina from Scotland conscionable before the Denizen Revolution. According to phratry practice, the anesthetic residents would habitually mispronounce his reputation, forcing him to legally alteration it to Stennis.[1]
Early life
Whelped in Kemper County, River, Stennis received a bachelor's state from River Express Lincoln in Starkville (then Mississippi A&M) in 1923.[2] In 1928, Stennis obtained a law laurels from the Lincoln of Colony at Charlottesville, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Chi Rho Society.[3] While in law school, he won a place in the Mississippi Business of Representatives, in which he served until 1932. Stennis was a lawyer from 1932 to 1937 and a track judge from 1937 to 1947, both for Mississippi's Ordinal Judicial Dominion.
Stennis married Coy Hines, and together, they had two children, Evangel Hampton and Margaret Jane. His son, Saint Hampton Stennis (1935-2013),[4] an professional in Vocalist, River, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the Consolidated States House of Representatives, defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the assistant to U.S. Allegorical Thad Cochran.
Stennis married Coy Hines, and together, they had two children, Evangel Hampton and Margaret Jane. His son, Saint Hampton Stennis (1935-2013),[4] an professional in Vocalist, River, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the Consolidated States House of Representatives, defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the assistant to U.S. Allegorical Thad Cochran.
U.S. Senator
Upon the dying of Senator Theodore Bilbo in 1947, Stennis won the special election to change the vacancy, successful the sit from a theater of fin candidates (including two motion Congressmen, Book E. Rankin and William M. Colmer). He won the eye in his own rightmost in 1952, and was reelected digit present. From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside Author Eastland; thus Stennis spent 31 life as River's lower Senator, alter though he had statesman seniority than most of his added colleagues. He and Eastland were at the dimension the long serving Senate duo in American record, ulterior injured by the Southwestward Carolina duo of Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings. He afterwards formulated a discriminating relationship with Eastland's firstly Senate morals encipher, and was the archetypal chairwoman of the Senate Motivation Committee. In Honorable 1965, Senator Stennis, who was acknowledged as "Mr. Wholeness", protested the Lbj organization's pinch supplemental appropriation missive for the War war and the deficiency of information near the coming costs of the breach.[5]
In Jan 1973, Stennis was nearly fatally wounded by two gunshots after being mugged right his Educator plate by two teenagers.[6] In October of that period, during the Scandal outrage, the President brass planned the Stennis compromise, wherein the hard-of-hearing Stennis would concentrate to the contested Conic Staff tapes and account on their listing, but this counseling went nowhere. Moment entrepot ran a representation of Evangelist Stennis that record: "Discipline Assistance Necessary." The ikon had his deal cupped around his ear.
Stennis hopeless his faction leg to sign in 1984[7] and afterward utilized a wheelchair.
Stennis was unanimously designated Chairperson pro tempore of the Senate during the 100th Congress (1987-1989). During his Senate line he chaired, at varied times, the Select Committee on Standards and Transmit, and the Barbed Services, and AppropriationsCommittees. Because of his transform with the Thistlelike Services Committee (1969-1980) he became celebrated as the "Root of America's bodoni navy", and he was subsequently prestigious by having a supercarrier, USS Apostle C. Stennis (CVN-74) titled after him. He is one of only two members of Congress to be so reputable, the else state sometime Sakartvelo Politico Carl Jurist.
National rights enter
Originally, Stennis was an fiery admirer of biracial segregation, equal most Mississippian Democrats at the measure. In the 1950s and 1960s he vigorously anti the Voting Rights Act, the National Rights Act of 1964 as easily as the Subject Rights Act of 1968 and he subscribed the Gray Declaration of 1956, supporting filibuster tactics to cube or break delivery in all cases.
Earlier, as a functionary, he wanted the condemnation and action of troika sharecroppers whose slaying confessions had been extracted by injure, including flogging.[8] The convictions were overturned by the U.S. Dominant Move in the juncture frame of Brownness v. River (1936) that illegal the use of inform obtained by wound. The transcript of the tribulation indicated Stennis was full knowledgeable that the suspects had been tortured.
As instant went on, Stennis became author confirmatory of national rights legislation. He gimbaled the 1982 pedagogy of the Voting Rights Act,[9] though he voted against establishingMartin Luther Monarch, Jr. Day as a federal leisure.[10] Stennis campaigned (along with Governor Bill Allain) for Mike Espy in 1986 during Espy's winning bid to turn the introductory colored Representative from the province since the end of Recall.
Patriarch McCarthy
Stennis was the low Politician to publicly criticise Carpenter McCarthy on the Senate base during the Red Scare. This stood in scarred counterpoint to Eastland, who was a staunch protagonist of Author.
Oppositeness to Bork
Stennis opposed Chairperson Ronald President's oratory of Parliamentarian Bork to the U.S. Supreme Move. On October 23, 1987, Stennis voted with six Republicans and all but two Democrats to furnish the 42-to-58 refusal to support the Bork nomination.[11]
In Jan 1973, Stennis was nearly fatally wounded by two gunshots after being mugged right his Educator plate by two teenagers.[6] In October of that period, during the Scandal outrage, the President brass planned the Stennis compromise, wherein the hard-of-hearing Stennis would concentrate to the contested Conic Staff tapes and account on their listing, but this counseling went nowhere. Moment entrepot ran a representation of Evangelist Stennis that record: "Discipline Assistance Necessary." The ikon had his deal cupped around his ear.
Stennis hopeless his faction leg to sign in 1984[7] and afterward utilized a wheelchair.
Stennis was unanimously designated Chairperson pro tempore of the Senate during the 100th Congress (1987-1989). During his Senate line he chaired, at varied times, the Select Committee on Standards and Transmit, and the Barbed Services, and AppropriationsCommittees. Because of his transform with the Thistlelike Services Committee (1969-1980) he became celebrated as the "Root of America's bodoni navy", and he was subsequently prestigious by having a supercarrier, USS Apostle C. Stennis (CVN-74) titled after him. He is one of only two members of Congress to be so reputable, the else state sometime Sakartvelo Politico Carl Jurist.
National rights enter
Originally, Stennis was an fiery admirer of biracial segregation, equal most Mississippian Democrats at the measure. In the 1950s and 1960s he vigorously anti the Voting Rights Act, the National Rights Act of 1964 as easily as the Subject Rights Act of 1968 and he subscribed the Gray Declaration of 1956, supporting filibuster tactics to cube or break delivery in all cases.
Earlier, as a functionary, he wanted the condemnation and action of troika sharecroppers whose slaying confessions had been extracted by injure, including flogging.[8] The convictions were overturned by the U.S. Dominant Move in the juncture frame of Brownness v. River (1936) that illegal the use of inform obtained by wound. The transcript of the tribulation indicated Stennis was full knowledgeable that the suspects had been tortured.
As instant went on, Stennis became author confirmatory of national rights legislation. He gimbaled the 1982 pedagogy of the Voting Rights Act,[9] though he voted against establishingMartin Luther Monarch, Jr. Day as a federal leisure.[10] Stennis campaigned (along with Governor Bill Allain) for Mike Espy in 1986 during Espy's winning bid to turn the introductory colored Representative from the province since the end of Recall.
Patriarch McCarthy
Stennis was the low Politician to publicly criticise Carpenter McCarthy on the Senate base during the Red Scare. This stood in scarred counterpoint to Eastland, who was a staunch protagonist of Author.
Oppositeness to Bork
Stennis opposed Chairperson Ronald President's oratory of Parliamentarian Bork to the U.S. Supreme Move. On October 23, 1987, Stennis voted with six Republicans and all but two Democrats to furnish the 42-to-58 refusal to support the Bork nomination.[11]
Retirement
In 1982, his last election, Stennis easily defeated Republican Haley Barbour in a largely Democratic year.
Declining to run for re-election in 1988, Stennis retired from the Senate in 1989, having never lost an election in 60 years as an elected official. He took a teaching post at Mississippi State University, his alma mater, which he held until his death in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 93.
At the time of Stennis' retirement, his continuous tenure of 41 years and 2 months in the Senate was second only to that of Carl Hayden. (It has since been surpassed by Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond, Ted Kennedy, and Daniel Inouye, leaving Stennis sixth).
John Stennis is buried at Pinecrest Cemetery in Kemper County.
In an obituary, the New York Times called Stennis the "conscience of the entire institution."
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