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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.
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 Jackson,...
John C. Stennis was a segregationist who stood in the way of civil rights in America. Stennis signed the "Southern Manifesto," which argued that Brown v Board of Education of Topeka was an abuse...
Jun 23, 2020 · The carrier honors a segregationist senator who opposed civil rights and MLK. A retired Black lieutenant commander argues for a change and suggests William S. Norman, a Black Navy leader.
The author argues that the USS John C. Stennis, a nuclear aircraft carrier, should be renamed because its namesake was a racist senator who opposed civil rights and torture. He cites historical sources and personal experience to support his case and challenges the Navy's moral obligation to know its history.
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 […]
