Allen J. Ellender
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Allen Joseph Ellender was an American politician and lawyer who was a U.S. senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death in 1972. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with Huey Long. As Sena
Official portrait, c. 1970
Richard Russell Jr.
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Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an American politician. A Southern Democrat, he served as the 66th governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years,
Allen J. Ellender
…of Representatives electing the president in that year's general election and added that the possibility could arise from the entry of Georgia Senator Richard Russell, Jr. into the general election as a third-party candidate and thereby see neither President Truman or Republican Senator Robert A. Taft able to secure enough…
Russell in 1952
Russell and President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963
A statue of Russell by Frederick Hart is in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building.
Letter from Russell about Civil Rights Act