Allen J. Ellender

Allen Joseph Ellender (* September 24, 1890 in Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, † July 27, 1972 in Bethesda, Maryland) was an American politician and from 1937 until his death in a U.S. Senator for the state of Louisiana. He was a democrat and an original ally of the legendary Huey Long.

Early years

Allen Ellender visited one public and one private school. He then graduated in 1909 at the Catholic St. Aloysius College (now Brother Martin High School ) in New Orleans. He then studied law at Tulane University in New Orleans. His admission to the bar he received in 1913 and then opened a practice in Houma.

Political career

Ellender was 1913-1915 Attorney of Houma and then district attorney of Terrebonne Parish from 1915 to 1916. During the First World War, he served from 1917 to 1918 with the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army Artillery Corps.

Ellender took 1921 as a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention in part. The constitution adopted by the Committee there was then withdrawn back in 1974, two years after Elle DERs death. In 1924 he was elected as an MP in the House of Representatives from Louisiana and held this office until 1936. During this time he was 1928-1932 faction leaders and then from 1932 to 1936 Speaker of the House, when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.

He took the seat for the District Winn Parish one, which was held until then by Long, and was actually intended for the Democratic candidate Oscar Allen of Winnfield, a. Allen died after he won the Democratic nomination by a majority of 200,000 votes. His death paved the way for Elle DERs choice.

During his time in the U.S. Senate was Ellender chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, 1951-1953, and 1955-1971 at this time., He was a strong advocate of sugarcane holdings of government. He also signed in 1956, as almost all the senators from the southern states, the so-called "Southern Manifesto ," which condemned a court judgment within the meaning of racial equality. From 1971 until his death he was also Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee., But He also held the Office of the President pro tempore of the Senate in 1971 and 1972 held.

Ellender was involved along with the liberal Republican Ralph Flanders of Vermont loudly against McCarthyism and attacked the methods of investigation with respect to communism, which were used by the Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

Honors

The Ellender Memorial High School in Houma and Allen Ellender Middle School in Marrero were named after him. It was further added Ellender posthumously in 1994 into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.