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Allen J. Ellender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Allen Joseph Ellender (September 24, 1890- July 27, 1972) was a U.S. political figure from Houma, Louisiana who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death in 1972. Ellender, along with Ralph Flanders of Vermont, was a vociferous opponent of McCarthyism and attacked the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He also served as the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee from 1951 to 1953 and 1955 to 1971, and as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee from 1971 until 1972. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allen_J._Ellender   (176 words)

Allen J. Ellender Allen J. Ellender was a native of Terrebonne Parish and a graduate of Tulane University (M.A. and LL.B.). He is the only Louisianian to ever serve 6 senate terms, become president Pro Tempore, become Chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee or become Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committtee. He served in the Louisiana legislature and was speaker of the Louisiana House. www.southdownmuseum.org /ellender.htm   (146 words)

ELLENDER, Allen Joseph (1890-1972) Bibliography Tributes to the Honorable Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana in the United States Senate: Upon the Occasion of His Eighty-first Birthday. Memorial Services, Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Tributes Presented in Eulogy of Allen J. Ellender, Late a Senator from Louisiana. “Louisiana Senator Allen J. Ellender and IWW Leader Covington Hall: An Agrarian Dichotomy.” Louisiana History 23 (Summer 1982): 259-75. bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=E000112   (113 words)

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- How to Change Laws You Don't Like -- Jul. 17, 1964 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW How to Change Laws You Don't Like "It is the law," said Louisiana& Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that he had opposed so stubbornly. Ellender warned, "must be within the framework of the orderly processes established by law." Any other course "is foolhardy and indefensible," including the doctrine of civil disobedience, which has "no more credence now than it did before."From a longtime segregationist, that was a statement of stunning reasonableness. www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,875982,00.html   (138 words)

Archived: Allen J. Ellender Fellowships The Ellender fellowships are often awarded to the same teacher at the same school for many years. In the 1992-93 school year, the Close Up Foundation awarded Ellender fellowships through the Washington Program for High School Students and Educators to approximately 2,413 students and 2,567 teachers and administrators to enable them to come to Washington, D.C., for a first-hand look at the operations of the three branches of the U.S. Government. Limit the proportion of Federal Ellender funds spent on teacher fellowships. www.ed.gov /pubs/Biennial/111.html   (597 words)

Allen Ellender Ellender remained in the Senate until his death at the Beshesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, on 27th July, 1972. In 1915 Ellender was appointed district attorney of Terrebonne Parish. In the Senate Ellender served as chairman of the Committee on Claims and as a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAellenderA.htm   (282 words)

Ninety-second United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia President Pro Tempore (1st session): Allen J. Ellender (D-Louisiana). President Pro Tempore (2nd Session): James O. Eastland (D-Mississippi), following the death of Senator Ellender. The 92nd House had 255 Democrats and 180 Republicans. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ninety-second_United_States_Congress   (120 words)

Allen J. Ellender -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Allen J. Ellender -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article He served as the (additional info and facts about president pro tempore) president pro tempore of the (additional info and facts about U.S. Senate) U.S. Senate between 1971 and 1972. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/allen_j._ellender.htm   (47 words)

USS Irex Allen J. Ellender, wife of Senator Ellender of Louisiana and commissioned 14 lilay 1945, Comdr. After shakedown in the New London area, Irex sailed for the Pacific via the Panama Canal. www.multied.com /navy/Submarine/irex.html   (574 words)

National Park Service: History of Visitor Fees The Senate passed the bill on August 12, with only Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana voting against it. Because he did not cite it, NPS Assistant Director Thomas J. Allen may have been unaware of this provision when he proposed charging a camping fee in Yosemite Valley the following year. Allen advocated the fee not for revenue, but as a regulatory tool to discourage Californians from monopolizing the campsites year after year. www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/mackintosh3/fees2.htm   (2757 words)

Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana Allen J. Ellender, born on a sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, rose to become one of the most dominant men in the U.S. Senate. In Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana, Thomas A. Becnel methodically traces the extended career of this contradictory politician­a man who, though essentially a conservative, was surprisingly liberal on many issues. Ellender began life in a farm family and never lost his close ties to rural Louisiana. www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/fal-win-95/becnel.html   (355 words)

McCarthyism - SourceWatch William Fulbright, John Sherman Cooper, Samuel James Ervin, and Allen J. Ellender were key senatorial figures in bringing down McCarthy. This comprehensive program vetted all federal government employees for Communist connections, and employed evidence provided by anonymous sources whom the subjects of investigation were not allowed to challenge or identify. From the viewpoint of people who were caught up in the conflict for simply being objectionable (but certainly not communist spies), it was a massive violation of civil and Constitutional rights. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=McCarthyism   (1090 words)

Cosell, Howard, to Fitz-Gibbon, Bernice. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 Ellender, Allen J, Ellerbee, Linda, 8388, 8389, 8390, 8391 Cunningham, J V, Cuomo, Mario, 609, 610, 611, 612, 1477, 1909, 1910, 3619, 3620, 3621, 4544, 4961, 7348, 8825 Dean, William J, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1086, 1087, 1088, 1089, 1090, 1091 www.bartleby.com /63/3.html   (554 words)

NODULE 11 On June 29, 1963, J. Edgar Hoover received a letter from Rafael Aznarz Costea: "Attached hereto please find a panflet given to me by a young american that was at Canal Street with a big advise "HANDS OFF CUBA" you know that is a communist slogan against the United States. In 1955, he was employed by J. Walter Thompson advertising in Venezuela. On August 2, 1962, J. Walter Yeagley, Assistant Attorney General, Internal Security Division, advised the New Orleans FBI Office: "In view of Mr. www.ajweberman.com /nodules/nodule11.htm   (18410 words)

Cajun Country: Houma/ Thibodaux/ Grand Isle Area Nicholls State University features the Allen J. Ellender Memorial Library with displays of the region including the Evangeline Baseball League Collection, Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building, and the Allen J. Ellender Archives. Travel south along LA 1 or LA 308, enjoying the bayou drive through Cajun villages on your way to the Gulf of Mexico. www.lapage.com /crt/a-cj-hou.htm   (586 words)

NOLA.com: Cajun Culture Forum Here is Senator Allen J. Ellender's Recipe for Jambalaya on the Southdown Plantation House/Terrebonne Museum web site... Senator Ellender who was known as "the Little Cajun Senator from Houma" and as "Chef Supreme" in Washington D. Senator Ellender learned his Jambalaya Recipe from his mother when he was just a boy in Terrebonne Parish... Senator Ellender from Houma was pro tempre of the United States Senate and was third in line for the presidency...he held the highest post of any politician ever from Louisiana...before he was elected to the U. Senate he was Legendary Governor Huey P. Long's "Speaker of the House" in Louisiana... www.nola.com /forums/cajun/index.ssf?artid=1370   (104 words)

Lafourche Parish Information A self contained community of over 72 structures, it will survive the Civil war intact and continued to prosper under the ownership of the J. Wilson Lepine family which bought the 3,000-acre plantation in 1890. Originating as a 1775 Spanish grant to Etienne Boudreaux, Laurel Valley Plantation is the largest nineteenth century sugar plantation complex still surviving. The Lepine family has established a non-profit corporation, Laurel Valley Village which includes most of the plantation’s original structures, built around 1840, on a 30 acre tract. www.enlou.com /parishes/lafourche-parish.htm   (536 words)

Nicholls State University - Ellender Memorial Library The Ellender Memorial Library's catalog, iLink, provides access to books, journals, videos, CD's, LP's, and other resources owned by the library. You may also use the My Account section for a list of the items you have checked out, or to renew your library materials, as long as they are not already overdue. www.nicholls.edu /library   (119 words)

ipedia.com: President pro tempore of the United States Senate Article Prior to the shift of James Jeffords from Republican to Independent in May 2001, which shifted control of the Senate from the Republican to the Democratic Party, the office was held by J. Before the Republicans regained control of the Senate on November 5, 2002, the President Pro Tempore was Robert Byrd of West Virginia. At this point, it was decided that presidents pro tempore should serve until a new one was elected. www.ipedia.com /president_pro_tempore_of_the_united_states_senate.html   (2141 words)

Center for South Louisiana Studies Allen Ellender, a NASA official, and James Morrison standing beside a Sikorsky helicopter. On first row left to right are Senator Allen J. Ellender, an unidentified man, Harry Kelleher, James Eastland; on second row are T. Thompson, F. Present in the photograph are John Stennis, Willis Robinson, James Morrison, Russell Long, and Allen Ellender. www.selu.edu /Academics/Depts/RegionalStudies/archivalcoll/P-Q/photos-morrison,jimmy3.html   (6026 words)

NARA - Center for Legislative Archives - Guide to Senate Records: Chapter 18 1921-1946 Ellender also introduced a resolution to establish a special committee to investigate the charges. The Committee on Civil Service agreed with Ellender's call for a special committee, referring in its report on the resolution to "a clique of 'bureaucratic czars' who. At the same time, however, Members of Congress were besieged daily by civil service employees charging superiors with favoritism and other violations of the purpose and intent of the civil service law. www.archives.gov /legislative/guide/senate/chapter-18-1921-1946.html   (6007 words)

Clyde Johnson: Mysterious Kennedy Assassination Death? Johnson announced in 1966 he would oppose the re-election bid of Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D-La. He first attracted attention early in 1963 when he was thrown out of the State AFL-CIO convention at Baton Rouge after attempting to make an impromptu speech. A native of Hinds County, Miss., Johnson claimed to be a key witness in New Orleans Dist. Atty. Prior to the deadline he said he was withdrawing because a fire had destroyed his Greensburg store and he financially unable to make the race. mcadams.posc.mu.edu /death5.htm   (607 words)

CARA: LOUISIANA NEEDS A NEW APPROPRIATOR There'd been a long string: the late Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D-La., former Sen. J. No Louisianian then alive and politically aware could remember when Louisiana didn't have an appropriator. www.landrights.org /OCS/Advocate.00-11-19.htm   (647 words)

JFK LINK - jfk300_61 JOHN F. NOTE: This is the text of identical letters addressed to the Honorable Allen J. Ellender, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and to the Honorable Harold D. Cooley, Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture. This will avoid the inconvenience to growers which results from emergency actions, will permit producers of fall-seeded barley to participate, and will provide time for a thorough review of administrative procedures. On August 8 the President approved Public Law 87-127 (75 Stat. www.jfklink.com /speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk300_61.html   (532 words)

HOUMA, LA Political Contributions by Individuals Allen, David (Allen & Norman Llc/Attorney), (Zip code: 70360) $1000 to JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC on 03/22/04 Ellender, Albert P DDS (Dentist?Self Employed), (Zip code: 70360) $300 to BALDONE FOR CONGRESS on 08/31/04 Allen, David B (Allen & Norman L. C./Attorney), (Zip code: 70367) $1000 to RODNEY ALEXANDER FOR CONGRESS INC. on 05/21/03 www.city-data.com /elec/elec-HOUMA-LA.html   (6799 words)

Cal027.htm 1442: "To facilitate the regulation, control, and eradication of plant pests" (Allen J. Ellender - Louisiana; Russell B. 3420: "To extend and amend the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954" (Allen J. Ellender - Louisiana). Data: "Letter from Secretary Benson to Senator Ellender." www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/albertinventory/Cal027.htm   (4931 words)

Melanie M. Mills I am Melanie Mills and I am a 4th year teacher at Ellender Memorial High School in Houma, Louisiana. I have taught Biology II inclusion, Biology I, and Physical Science. www.nicholls.edu /phsc/lasip/00/mm   (157 words)

Thomas G. Paterson Papers Allen, George V. Allen memoirs (with footnotes by T. Paterson), n.d. Thomas Graham Paterson received his Bachelors degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1963, and his Masters and Doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1968, respectively. The research portion of the collection was donated by Dr. Paterson to the Dodd Research Center in November 1997. www.lib.uconn.edu /online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/Paterson/MSS19980365.html   (3944 words)

Franklin D. Roosevelt - American Heritage Center, Inc. In 1922 Landon served as secretary to Governor Henry J. Allen and in 1924 was an important leader in the independent gubernatorial campaign of William Allen White against the Ku Klux Klan. Alfred E. Smith, Roosevelt's predecessor as Governor of New York, announced that he would be available for the nomination, and was assisted in his bid by two principal figures: John J. Raskob and Jouett Shouse, who urged local Democratic organizations not to instruct their delegates to the convention which candidate to vote for. Landon was the organizer of the successful campaign in 1928 to nominate and elect Clyde M. Reed governor; he himself was chosen chairman of the Republican state committee. www.fdrheritage.org /fdr_museum_preview.htm   (11284 words)

ELLENDER, Allen Joseph - Biographical Information Dictionary of American Biography; Becnel, Thomas A. Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana: A Biography. bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000112   (23 words)

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