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James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 – February 19, 1986) was an American attorney, plantation owner, and politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation on December 27, 1978.
James Eastland: A Featured Biography. James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, widely known as "Big Jim," served in the U.S. Senate for 36 years. In 1941 he was appointed to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Democrat Pat Harrison.
Known as the Godfather of Mississippi Politics, James Oliver Eastland was one of the leaders of the massive resistance movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Eastland was born on 28 November 1904 in Doddsville, a small town in the Mississippi Delta. A year later the family moved to Forest, in the hilly eastern part of […]
Jun 21, 2019 · Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) told President Lyndon B. Johnson it was fake news. Eastland’s legacy is under scrutiny in recent days as former vice president Joe Biden touted his relationship...
Feb 20, 1986 · James O. Eastland, for 36 years a conservative United States Senator from Mississippi who served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee for 22 years, died today in Greenwood-LeFlore County ...
Jun 21, 2019 · When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. arrived in the Senate from Delaware in 1973, one of the first colleagues he tangled with was James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, the vicious segregationist who...
Jun 19, 2019 · Joe Biden, speaking at a fundraiser in New York on Tuesday night, fondly remembered the days he served in the Senate with James O. Eastland, a white supremacist Democrat from Mississippi.
