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{{Officeholder
|name=John C. Stennis
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=Coy Hines
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Mississippi
|terms=November 5, 1947 – January 3, 1989
|preceded=[[Theodore G. Bilbo]]
|status=f
|succeeded=[[Trent Lott]]
}}
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=Member of the [[Mississippi]] House of Representatives
|terms=1928–1932
|preceded=???
|former=y
|succeeded=???
}}
}}
'''John Cornelius Stennis''' (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was the [[Democrat]] Senator from [[Mississippi]] from 1947 to 1989. Stennis opposed anti-poll tax amendments, anti-lynching legislation, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], and the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and 1968. After the [[Supreme Court]] ruling in ''[[Brown vs. Board of Education]]'', Stennis proposed maintaining [[segregation]] by improving [[African American]] schools so that integration could be rendered unconstitutionally unnecessary. Stennis was among 19 Democrat senators who signed the [[Southern Manifesto]] in defiance of the ''Brown vs. Board'' decision.
'''John Cornelius Stennis''' (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was the [[Democrat]] Senator from [[Mississippi]] from 1947 to 1989. Stennis opposed anti-poll tax amendments, anti-lynching legislation, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], and the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and 1968. After the [[Supreme Court]] ruling in ''[[Brown vs. Board of Education]]'', Stennis proposed maintaining [[segregation]] by improving [[African American]] schools so that integration could be rendered unconstitutionally unnecessary. Stennis was among 19 Democrat senators who signed the [[Southern Manifesto]] in defiance of the ''Brown vs. Board'' decision.