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.
USS John C. Stennis underway off the coast of southern California
USS John C. Stennis (Left) and the British Invincible-class HMS Illustrious (right) operating together, April 1998.
USS John C. Stennis arrives in Bremerton on 31 August 2007.
Final flight over Iraq (18 December 2011)
John Cornelius Stennis 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. He retired from the Senate in 1989, and is, to date, the last Democrat to have been a U.S. senator from Mississippi. Furthermore, at the time of his retirement, Stennis was the last senator to have served during the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
Stennis in 1967
Stennis being sworn into the U.S. Senate by Arthur Vandenberg, 1947. James Eastland, Mississippi's other Senator, stands behind Stennis.
Stennis celebrating a space shuttle engine test in 1978
The USS John C. Stennis