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Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As Senate Minority Leader from 1959 until his death in 1969, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s.
Everett McKinley Dirksen (born January 4, 1896, Pekin, Illinois, U.S.—died September 7, 1969, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. politician and leader of the Senate Republicans during the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Everett McKinley Dirksen, after eight terms in the House of Representatives, upset the powerful incumbent Scott Lucas and won election to the Senate in 1950. Dirksen became Republican leader in 1959, a post he held until his death in 1969.
The hero of the hour was minority leader Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.). Dirksen, who had little support among Chicago’s black voters and who had been picketed at his home by rights activists, took pains to point out that he was “no Johnny-come lately” to civil rights legislation.
May 23, 2018 · Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) served as a Republican congressman and senator from Illinois for over three decades. Everett McKinley Dirksen was born in Pekin, Illinois, on January 4, 1896, the son of Johann and Antje Dirksen who had immigrated from the Ostfriesland district of Germany in 1866. Dirksen and his twin, Thomas Reed, were ...
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen Dies. September 7, 1969. During 11 years as his party's Senate floor leader, Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen became more closely identified in the public mind with the U.S. Senate than any other senator of his time.
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Everett Dirksen was the Republican Leader of the U.S. Senate during the debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Without his support, the bill would not have become law.
