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Stennis, John C.From "Kemper County, Mississippi - A Pictorial History", placed here with permission by the Kemper County Historical Commission. Story submitted by: Margaret Womble
1901-1995 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. He attended public schools in Kemper County and received degrees from Mississippi State and the University of Virginia. In 1929 he married Coy Hines, who was then serving as Kemper County's home demonstration agent, and they had two children, John Hampton and Margaret Jane. 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. He served Mississippi's 16th Judicial District as district attorney and then as circuit judge. In 1947 he won election to the U.S. Senate, telling people of Mississippi "I want to plow a straight furrow, right down to the end of my row!" As a United States Senator, John Stennis gained national respect as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Appropriations Committee. His tombstone in DeKalb's Pinecrest Cemetery bears the inscription .....HE PLOWED A STRAIGHT FURROW.
From "Kemper County, Mississippi - A Pictorial History", placed here with permission by the Kemper County Historical Commission. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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