John Glenn. But Metzenbaum then ran in 1976 for the state’s other Senate seat and won a full term that way. Another notable anomaly: Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland was appointed and ...

And of course, Trent Lott, who served alongside Cochran for most of his tenure, served as Senate majority leader. Before Cochran and Lott, there were James Eastland and John Stennis representing ...

Chairman James O. Eastland, of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today took a leading role on the Senate floor in opposition to the immigration reform bill which would eliminate the national origins ...

Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi, a segregationist Democrat who served more than three decades on Capitol Hill, once told then-Sen. Joe Biden that A/C was the most significant change to occur ...

“A senator can’t use a blue slip to block ... “It was not until 1956 that the blue slip policy changed under Chairman James Eastland, a Democrat from Mississippi,” Grassley observed.

President Biden on Tuesday reminisced about lunching with the late segregationist Sen. James Eastland while urging members of Congress to build personal relationships with one another to improve ...

James Eastland, who died in 1986, often described African Americans as "an inferior race" and sometimes spoke on the Senate floor about what he called "mongrelization" of races. Biden spoke about ...

President Joe Biden on Friday reminisced about bringing back “the old days” in the U.S. Senate when he was ... to former segregationist senators James Eastland (D-Miss.) and Strom Thurmond ...

Jackson's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee begins Monday ... Sam Ervin, D-N.C., James Eastland, D-Miss. and Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. They were determined to make life difficult for ...

Pointing to this lack of judicial experience as the reason for the justices’ flawed decision-making, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland complained to Sen. Joe McCarthy ...

“He was very mysterious, but I liked him.” She, like others in the Mississippi news media, was surprised when Democratic Sen. James Eastland appointed Tolliver to a highly sought after post on ...

To be sure, there had been fierce political opposition. In 1958 Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss.) said, "We would have in the American Congress two senators and a representative who, in my judgement ...