John C. Stennis | Wikipedia audio article
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John C. Stennis


00:01:42 1 Family
00:02:11 2 Early life
00:03:19 3 U.S. Senator
00:03:23 3.1 Early career
00:09:48 3.2 1970s
00:18:12 3.2.1 1970 re-election campaign
00:18:21 3.2.2 Vietnam
00:22:42 3.2.3 Other foreign policy issues
00:28:39 3.2.4 Watergate
00:29:41 3.2.5 1976 re-election campaign
00:30:05 3.3 1980s
00:33:30 3.4 Civil rights record
00:34:53 3.5 Opposition to Bork
00:35:17 4 Retirement
00:36:11 5 Naming honors
00:37:04 6 See also



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John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was 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.
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.