Dirksen, Everett McKinley
Biography:
"Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., January 4, 1896; attended public schools and the University of Minnesota College of Law at Minneapolis; during the First World War served overseas as a private and later as a second lieutenant of Field Artillery 1918-1919; general manager of a dredging company 1922-1925; commissioner of finance of Pekin, Ill., 1927-1931; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced practice in Pekin, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1949); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eightieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968, and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 7, 1969; Republican whip 1957-1959; minority leader 1959-1969; chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Ninetieth Congress); lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, September 9-10, 1969; interment in Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill."--Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Carrying out the program / Baldy, [1966 Sept. 21]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --I feel like scoring again-- / Baldy, [1968 Mar. 6]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Next, the chair recognizes-- / Baldy, 1967 Nov. 7. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Now my next point-- / Baldy, [1967 Nov. 7]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Picking on these poor defenseless people shame on you, boy! / Baldy, [1969 Mar. 31] (Editorial cartoons)
- Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
- Allen--Newspaper and magazine clippings, newsletters and reports, and 1964 correspondence (Pamela P. Allen papers, 1967-1974; Z: Accessions, M85-587, Folder 3) (Correspondence)
- Braden--Mississippi 1964 (Carl and Anne Braden papers, 1928-2006; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 6, Box 55, Folder 15) (Correspondence)
- CORE--Mississippi Free Press - Newspaper, 1964 Feb. 8-Aug. 1 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 69) (Newsletters)
- Poor People's Corporation--Correspondence, COFO, 1964, Jan. 30-1964, Oct. 14 (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967, Archives Main Stacks, Mss 172, Box 1, Folder 1) (Correspondence)
- Robinson--Correspondence, 1964-1966 (Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson papers, 1960-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 191, Box 1, Folder 1) (Correspondence)
- Shirah--Correspondence and memos, 1961, 1963-1964, undated (Samuel C. Shirah, Jr., papers, 1961-1964; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 540, Box 1, Folder 3) (Correspondence)
- Stromquist--Mississippi Freedom Project correspondence and writings, 1964 (Shelton Stromquist papers, 1963-1978; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 641, Box 1, Folder 4) (Correspondence)
- James W. Silver Collection (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- BLACK CONGRESSIONAL MEMBER ON THOSE WHO WOULD FILIBUSTER "TO DEATH" CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION (1963) (news)
- DIRKSEN AND SENATOR COMMENT ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL (1960) (news)
- DIRKSEN ON CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION (news)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. commenting on the United States' Congress failure to pass equal housing legislation, Atlanta, Georgia, 1966 (news)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. commenting on the United States' Congress failure to pass equal housing legislation, Atlanta, Georgia, 1966 (Moving images)