Dirksen, Everett McKinley

Authoritative Name:
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.
Associated Subjects:
Dirksen, Everett McKinley
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

17 items in 4 collections (expand all)

--I feel like scoring again-- / Baldy, [1968 Mar. 6].

Creator:
Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-1999
Date of Original:
1968-03-06
Collection:
Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.
Contributing Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

--It may require a little alteration attention, Barry! / Baldy, [ca. 1964]

Creator:
Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-1999
Date of Original:
1964
Collection:
Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.
Contributing Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

--Next, the chair recognizes-- / Baldy, 1967 Nov. 7.

Creator:
Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-1999
Date of Original:
1967-11-07
Collection:
Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.
Contributing Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

--Now my next point-- / Baldy, [1967 Nov. 7].

Creator:
Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-1999
Date of Original:
1967-11-04
Collection:
Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.
Contributing Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

--Picking on these poor defenseless people shame on you, boy! / Baldy, [1969 Mar. 31]

Creator:
Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-1999
Date of Original:
1969-03-31
Collection:
Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.
Contributing Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

--Pssst-- Don't you know there's a war on? / Baldy, [1968]

Creator:
Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-1999
Date of Original:
1968
Collection:
Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.
Contributing Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
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Oral history interview with David Gambrell, 1992 September 21

Creator:
Gambrell, David Henry, 1929-
Date of Original:
1992-09-21
Collection:
Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program
Contributing Institution:
University of West Georgia. Special Collections

Oral history interview with Phil Landrum, 1988 July 25-26

Creator:
Landrum, Phil M.
Date of Original:
1988-07-25/1988-07-26
Collection:
Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program
Contributing Institution:
University of West Georgia. Special Collections

Everett M. Dirksen to Hugh, 17 March 1954

Creator:
Dirksen, Everett McKinley
Date of Original:
1954-03-17
Collection:
James W. Silver Collection
Contributing Institution:
John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

BLACK CONGRESSIONAL MEMBER ON THOSE WHO WOULD FILIBUSTER "TO DEATH" CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION (1963)

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1963
1963-01-01
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

DIRKSEN AND SENATOR COMMENT ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL (1960)

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1960
1960-01-01
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

DIRKSEN ON CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1960-03-22
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1966-00-00
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection