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John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was an American politician who served as 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.
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), named for Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi, is the seventh of the Nimitz-class of nuclear-powered supercarriers in the United States Navy. She was commissioned on 9 December 1995. Her home port is temporarily Norfolk, Virginia, for her scheduled refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH), which began in 2019 ...
Welcome. USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) is the seventh Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and is named in honor of Senator John. C. Stennis of Mississippi. More about us. Leaders....
Apr 24, 1995 · Senator John C. Stennis, a courtly Mississippi Democrat who served in the Senate longer than all but one other person in history, died today at St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital in...
John Cornelius Stennis served for more than forty-one years as a US senator from Mississippi. The son of Hampton Howell Stennis and Margaret Cornelia Adams Stennis, he was born on 3 August 1901 on a farm near De Kalb in Kemper County. Stennis earned degrees at Mississippi State University (1923) and the University of Virginia […]
May 20, 2024 · STARKVILLE, Miss, (WCBI) – When he retired in 1989, John C. Stennis was the second-longest serving U.S. Senator and had never lost an election. Today, his former Press Secretary was...
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Mar 15, 2024 · There's a renewed push by retired Navy servicemembers and current members to rename an aircraft carrier. The USS John C. Stennis is named after a segregationist senator.
