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 John C. Stennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Stennis is buried at Pinecrest Cemetery in Kemper County, Mississippi.
John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 - April 23, 1995) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi.
Stennis' record on civil rights was mixed throughout his long career: in the 1950s and 1960s he vigorously opposed such legislation as the Voting Rights Act, but by the 1980s he had come full circle and regularly voted for bills supporting the rights of women and minorities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Stennis   (607 words)

  
 USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier in the United States Navy named for a Senator from Mississippi.
The eagle is representative of John C. Stennis' stature in the Senate, where he was respected and admired as a "soaring eagle" by some of his colleagues.
The four gold bands and eight ties denote John C. Stennis' four decades (41 years) in the Senate and the eight presidents he served with, from President Truman to President Reagan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_John_C._Stennis_(CVN-74)   (1047 words)

  
 Collections Mississippi State University Libraries
John C. Stennis pondered the idea of seeking the senate seat, and after many hours of discussing the possibility with his close friend J. Coleman of Ackerman (a future governor of Mississippi and Federal judge), Stennis announced his candidacy.
Stennis always believed that his and Georgia Senator Richard Russell's (Russell chaired Armed Services prior to Stennis's tenure in that post) opposition to President Lyndon Johnson's war policy was a key factor in Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968.
Born August 3, 1901, John Cornelius Stennis emerged from the small east central Mississippi town of DeKalb in Kemper County to become a giant in the United States Senate.
library.msstate.edu /congressional/stennis_bio.asp   (1314 words)

  
 Collections Mississippi State University Libraries
John C. Stennis pondered the idea of seeking the senate seat, and after many hours of discussing the possibility with his close friend J. Coleman of Ackerman (a future governor of Mississippi and Federal judge), Stennis announced his candidacy.
Stennis always believed that his and Georgia Senator Richard Russell's (Russell chaired Armed Services prior to Stennis's tenure in that post) opposition to President Lyndon Johnson's war policy was a key factor in Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968.
Born August 3, 1901, John Cornelius Stennis emerged from the small east central Mississippi town of DeKalb in Kemper County to become a giant in the United States Senate.
library.msstate.edu /congressional/stennis_bio.asp   (1314 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Trent Lott
John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 - April 23, 1995) was a Senator from the state of Mississippi.
Richard John Santorum (born May 10, 1958), commonly known as Rick Santorum, is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Trent-Lott   (8902 words)

  
 A Tribute to Senator John C. Stennis
Stennis always believed that their withdrawal of support played a major part in Johnson's decision to decline another run for president.
    John Cornelius Stennis was born on August 3, 1901, in Dekalb, Mississippi.
Stennis then served from 1932 to 1937 as the Mississippi sixteenth judicial district's prosecuting attorney and circuit judge in the same district from 1937 to 1947.
www.sig.msstate.edu /mainpage.fwx?read=_0DN0YAI6C   (878 words)

  
 John C. Stennis
JOHN C. STENNIS is our nation's newest aircraft carrier and is uniquely capable of providing a strong stabilizing presence in the region," Suggs said.
USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74) and Carrier Airwing SEVEN currently stand guard in the volatile region of the Arabian Gulf.
Quickly slicing her way across the Atlantic Ocean and sprinting through the Mediterranean, USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74), with Carrier Air Wing SEVEN (CVW-7) and Command Carrier Group Six (CCG-6) embarked, arrived on station in the Arabian Gulf Wednesday, March 11, 1998 to relieve the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73).
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/980314-onstation.htm   (908 words)

  
 John C. Stennis Space Center Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com
The John C. Stennis Space Center (or SSC), located in Hancock County, Mississippi at the Mississippi/Louisiana border, is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility.
The facility has been renamed several times in the course of its short history, becoming the Mississippi Test Facility in 1965, the National Space Technology Laboratories in 1974, and taking its present name in 1988 in order to honor the late Mississippi Senator John C. Stennis for his unwavering support of the national space program.
In 2005 Stennis Space Center, abbreviated SSC, was home to over 30 government agencies and private companies.
www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/John_C._Stennis_Space_Center   (650 words)

  
 commissi.txt
John C. Stennis is the eighth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the seventh of the Nimitz class.
The John C. Stennis is 1,092 feet long, has a width of 257 feet, a waterline beam of 134 feet and a combat load displacement of 97,000 tons.
John C. Stennis will be commanded by Capt. Robert C. Klosterman, USN, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, currently residing in Norfolk, Virginia, the carrier's homeport.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/stennis/commissi.txt   (630 words)

  
 Tribute to John C. Stennis
John Stennis served in the United States Senate nearly 42 years, the second-longest tenure in the history of our nation.
John Stennis demonstrated the qualities and characteristics Americans desperately want, and deserve, in their public officials.
JOHN C. Born on August 3, 1901, in Kemper County, Mississippi
www.stennis.gov /senatorpage.htm   (871 words)

  
 USS JOHN C. STENNIS Completes Maiden Deployment
JOHN C. STENNIS now docks in San Diego and will remain there for scheduled maintenance until April 1999, when it begins preparations for a Western Pacific deployment in January 2000.
Fourteen days after the ship left Norfolk, JOHN C. STENNIS was ready on arrival on station in the Gulf and relieved the USS George Washington (CVN 73).
ABOARD JOHN C. — On August 26, 1998, USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74) arrived in San Diego, completing its inaugural overseas deployment.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/980826-home.htm   (357 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN-74) TO CHANGE HOMEPORT
USS John C. Stennis is the eighth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the seventh of the Nimitz class.
Since its commissioning on Dec. 9, 1995 in Norfolk, Va., USS John C. Stennis has steamed more than 30,000 miles, qualified 1433 pilots from 30 different squadrons and was the platform used to perform the initial carrier qualifications for the newest Navy strike/fighter the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet.
USS John C. Stennis is commanded by Capt. Douglas Roulstone, USN.
www.defenselink.mil /releases/1997/b06091997_bt301-97.html   (228 words)

  
 USS John C. Stennis Arrives at New Homeport
Stennis' move to NBK was made to accommodate a Chief of Naval Operations policy to regularly rotate aircraft carriers.
Stennis Sailors have been waiting for this change of homeport for months, but once the ship pulled out of port in San Diego, the excitement and anticipation could be felt in the air.
Stennis moved to Bremerton, Wash., from San Diego to utilize NBK’s overhaul facilities and to replace USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), which will be moving to Norfolk, Va., this week.
www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=16563   (574 words)

  
 2C22.txt
John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Development Trust Fund -STATUTE- (a) Establishment of fund There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the "John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Development Trust Fund".
Establishment of John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development -STATUTE- (a) Establishment There is established in the legislative branch of the Government a center to be known as the "John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development".
Congressional findings -STATUTE- The Congress makes the following findings: (1) Senator John C. Stennis of the State of Mississippi has served his State and country with distinction for more than 60 years as a public servant, including service in the United States Senate for a period of 41 years.
uscode.house.gov /download/pls/2C22.txt   (1817 words)

  
 Biographies of Aerospace Officials and Policymakers, O-S
John C. Stennis (1901-1995) (D-MS) was elected to the Senate in 1947 and served until 1989.
John A. "Shorty" Powers was a well-known public affairs officer for NASA in the early 1960s during Project Mercury.
Cornelius Ryan was an influential journalist who worked with Collier's magazine in the 1950s and was in large measure responsible for the issues of the magazine devoted to space that appeared between 1952 and 1955.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/bioso-s.html   (11021 words)

  
 John C. Stennis Strike Group
John C. Stennis was also the platform for the first coalition E-2 and C-2 Cross deck landings onboard the FMS Charles De Gaulle, and the French E-2 landing onboard USS John C. Stennis.
The mission of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and her embarked air wing is to conduct sustained combat air operations.
The eagle is representative of John C. Stennis stature in the U. Senate where he was respected and admired as a "soaring eagle" by his colleagues.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/batgru-74.htm   (2746 words)

  
 Dictionary john
, John Lackland -- youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John Campbell George Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
www.dictionarydefinition.net /john.html   (217 words)

  
 Stennis, John C.
The youngest of seven children born to Hampton Howell and Cornelia Adams Stennis, John Stennis was reared in the Kipling Community and town of DeKalb.
Stennis, John C. From "Kemper County, Mississippi- A Pictorial History", placed here with permission by the Kemper County Historical Commission.
From 1928, when he was elected to represent Kemper County in the Mississippi House of Representatives, until 198, when he retired from the United States Senate, John Stennis was under continuous oath of office.
www.rootsweb.com /~mskemper/firstfamilies/stennisjohnc.htm   (313 words)

  
 djournal.com
Stennis was also not afraid of Lyndon Baines Johnson - the bully-style politician from the South who rose from the House to the presidency.
These people amassed power by pledging to white voters that black people would be kept "in their place." Although he was elected from the most racially inflexible state in the Union, John Stennis would have none of it.
Stennis was the first Democrat to speak on the Senate floor against Sen. Joseph McCarthy, also a former judge and said McCarthy had "slimed" the place.
www.djournal.com /pages/story.asp?ID=188674&pub=1   (900 words)

  
 Strom Thurmond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This honor is reserved for the scarcely-known Cornelius Cole, who reached 102 in 1924, though he had left the Senate many years before.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strom_Thurmond   (1794 words)

  
 Sid Salter's Remarks at the Stennis Lecture
John Cornelius Stennis was neither swift nor strong nor physically imposing.
I am honored today-26 years after being chosen as one of the first John C. Stennis Scholars in Political Science at Mississippi State University-to be here today charged with the responsibility to deliver the Stennis Leadership Lecture before this august gathering.
In later years, I would come to appreciate the "little judge" from Kemper County who "plowed a straight furrow to the end of the row." John C. Stennis remains the gold standard in Mississippi politics for integrity, honesty, selflessness, vision and genuine compassion and concern for common men and women.
www.stennis.gov /lecturethree.htm   (1992 words)

  
 christen.txt
John C. Stennis is the seventh Nimitz class aircraft carrier.
This ship honors the remarkable public career of John Cornelius Stennis of Mississippi, who served in the U.S. Senate for over 40 years.
During his distinguished career, Stennis served as Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, and President pro tempore of the Senate.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/stennis/christen.txt   (201 words)

  
 Mississippi State University Alumnus: Summer 1995
The John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State--established in 1976 and funded by federal and corporate grants and contracts as well as private donations--promotes citizen involvement in government and provides technical assistance to state agencies and local governments.
Another legacy of the senator is the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development at Mississippi State, established in 1989 by Congress.
Mississippi's premier statesman, former Senator John Cornelius Stennis, died April 23, 1995, at the age of 93.
msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu /alumnus/summer.95/35stenni.htm   (472 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is a nuclear-powered supercarrier in the United States Navy named for a Senator from Mississippi.
See also: John C. Stennis Battle Group The John C. Stennis Battle Group is a warfighting force of seven surface ships, two submarines and eight squadrons equipped and trained to work as a forward deployed force providing a deterent against aggression and protection of vital U.S. interests anywhere in the world.
The twenty stars represent the US's twentieth state, Mississippi, the home of John C. Stennis.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/USS-John-C.-Stennis-(CVN_74)   (2455 words)

  
 USS John C. Stennis Strike Group Deploys for Pacific Operations
The Stennis CSG includes the aircraft carrier Stennis, the Aegis-equipped guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57), Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83), guided-missile frigate USS Ford (FFG 54), Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Salt Lake City (SSN 716) and the replenishment ship USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7).
On deployment, Stennis is also home to Commander, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 21, commanded by Capt. John Christenson, and Commander, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 14, commanded by Capt. Scott Swift.
Stennis is the flagship for Commander, Carrier Group 7, Rear Adm. Patrick Walsh.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/05/mil-040525-nns02.htm   (353 words)

  
 History for USS John C. Stennis - CVN 74
The John C. Stennis (CVN-74) was commissioned on Dec. 9, 1995 and forms the centerpiece of the Stennis battle group.
Her homeport is the Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, Calif. The carrier is named for the late Senator from Mississippi, John C. Stennis.
February 26 thru August 26, 1998 - USS John C. Stennis sails from Norfolk to San Diego to new homeport for its first deployment.
www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,200188,00.html   (129 words)

  
 John C. Breckinridge --  Encyclopædia Britannica
John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky was nominated for vice-president.
Breckinridge, John C. When the Democratic party nominated James Buchanan of Pennsylvania for United States president in 1856, John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky was a natural choice for vice-president in order to balance the ticket between North and South.
John Breckinridge, oil on canvas by M.W. Clark; in the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016318?tocId=9016318   (894 words)

  
 Channel3000.com - News - John Karcher Reports From USS John C. Stennis
John C. Stennis is called the "Father of America's Navy," and for 41 years in Congress he fought tooth and nail for Navy programs.
John spent time aboard the ship off the coast of California and reported on everything from flight operations to the mess hall -- and how proud the sailors are to have served in the aerial assault in Afghanistan.
The Stennis is 1,092 feet long, and at 86 yards wide, is 1 yard longer than any of Brett Farve's touchdown passes in the past two years.
www.channel3000.com /news/2196436/detail.html   (1322 words)

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