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fBI ■ The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News ■ Sunday, January 8,1989
Highlights of Sen. John C. Stennis’ life and career
■	Aug. 3,1901 — John C. Stennis is bom in Kemper County, son of Hampton Howell Stennis and Margaret Cornelia Adams Stennis.
■	1928 — Receives law degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
■	1928-1932 — Serves as member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
*	■ Dec. 24, 1929 — Marries Coy Hines of New Albany, a Kemper County home demonstration agent.
■	Nov. 20, 1937
Jane is born.
Daughter Margaret
1937-1947 — Serves as circuit judge.
■	April 1954 — Becomes first Democrat to urge censure of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who made allegations of widespread infiltration of Communists in the federal government.
■	1919 — Graduates from Kemper County Agricultural High School.
■	1923 — Receives bachelor’s degree in general science from Mississippi A&M College in Starkville, now Mississippi State University.
11928-37 — Practices law in DeKalb.
■	1931-1937 — Serves as district prosecuting attorney.
I March 2,1935 — Son John Hampton is
born.
■	Nov. 4, 1947 — Defeats five opponents to be elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodore G. Bilbo.
■ 1956 — Helps draft the Southern Manifesto, a document signed by 101 Southern congressmen to voice their opposition to desegregation.
■ 1961 — Selected by Charles Laughton, the British film star who is to portray the part of a Southern senator in the movie version of Advise and Consent, as having the voice Laughton would like to adopt for the movie role.
■ March 26, 1970 — Urges Congress to start construction on the Tennessee-Tombig-bee Waterway in fiscal 1971.
■ Jan. 30, 1973 — Shot twice in robbery attempt outside his Washington home.
■	1958 — Tours the Soviet Union and makes an unscheduled stop to talk with children in a schoolyard near Kharkov.
■	1965 — Appointed a member of the first Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, also known as the Ethics Committee, and name<lJ^ha4ffrmTrt?SHfeTlow committee "members.
■	January 1969 — Named chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the panel that oversees military spending; Stennis served as chairman through 1980.
■	1982 — Votes for the extension of the Voting Rights Act, which he initially opposed in 1965:
■	1983 — Stennis’ wife, "Miss Coy,” dies. They were married 55 years.
■	November 1986 — Becomes second in length of service in the history of the Senate. Completion of his term on Jan. 3, 1989, put the senator eight months shy of the all-time Senate service record held by the late Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizona.
■	1987 — Named Senate Appropriations Committee chairman.
■	Oct. 19, 1987 — Announces that due to health reasons he will not become a candidate for re-election and will retire when his Senate terrii expires in Jan. 1989.
■	1988 — Endorses Democratic Congressman Wayne Dowdy of McComb with TV ads and campaign stops, but Dowdy loses the U.S. Senate race Nov. 8 to Republican Trent Lott.lhe 5th District congressman from Pascagoula. Lott, the outgoing House Republican whip, officially succeeded Stennis when he was sworn in on Jan. 3.
■	Nov. 3,1982 — Faces first serious political challenge since he was elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican challenger Haley Barbour of Yazoo City.
■	February 1984 — Becomes Mississippi’s longest serving U.S. senator.
■	Nov. 30, 1984 — Left leg is amputated because of cancerous tumor.
■	January 1987 — Honored by Senate colleagues in selection as president pro tempore of the Senate, third in line of succession to the presidency.
■	June 23, 1988 — Paid tribute by President Reagan, members of Congress, military and business leaders, Gov. Ray Mabus and hundreds of Mississippi admirers in Washington. Reagan announces that a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be named after Stennis.
■	December 1988 — Honored by more than 400 Mississippians, including members of Mississippi’s Capitol Hill delegation and Mississippians living in the Washington area, at the Senate Caucus Room.
Jackson Daily News staff writer Andy Kanengiser compiled this report.