" As a Democratic nominee, I am pledged to support the candidate of my party, and that I will do ," declared Ellender, though he could have argued that Thurmond, not Truman, was technically the " Democratic nominee " in Louisiana.

Ellender cultivated good relationships with the media, whose coverage of his tenure helped him to fend off serious competition.

Ellender died during the campaign, and Johnston, with powerful name identification stemming from his gubernatorial bid only months earlier, won the primary easily.

He had especially good relations with both of his senatorial colleagues from Louisiana, first Allen J. Ellender and, then, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., who like Long was born in Shreveport.

When head coach Bennie Ellender headed to his alma mater Tulane, Davidson was elevated to the head coaching job.

Allen Joseph Ellender ( September 24, 1890 – July 27, 1972 ) was a popular U. S. senator from Houma, Louisiana ( Terrebonne Parish ), who served from 1937 until his death.

Ellender was born in the town of Montegut in Terrebonne Parish.

Ellender was the city attorney of Houma from 1913 – 1915 and then district attorney of Terrebonne Parish from 1915-1916.

Ellender was a delegate to the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1921.

Ellender was President pro tempore of the U. S. Senate from 1971 – 1972, an honorific position that denoted he was the most senior Democrat.

Ellender was an opponent of Republican Senator Joe McCarthy.

Ellender was also, along with his Southern Democratic colleagues, a strong opponent of federal civil rights legislation.

Ellender was steadfastly loyal to all Democratic presidential nominees and refused to support then Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president in 1948, when Thurmond, the States Rights Party nominee was also the official Democratic nominee in Louisiana and three other southern states.

In 1960, however, Ellender was challenged by the then Republican National Committeeman George W. Reese, Jr., a New Orleans lawyer ( born 1924 ).

Reese accused Ellender, who was known for his hostility to Senator Joseph McCarthy, of being " soft on communism ".

Ellender was expected to defeat Johnston, but the veteran senator died during the primary campaign and left Johnston the de facto Democratic nominee.

In the Senate, Ellender was known by his colleagues for Cajun cooking from roast duck to shrimp jambalaya.

In 1994, Ellender was inducted posthumously into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

Ellender was an uncle of Bonnie Robichaux Livingston, wife of former U. S. Representative Bob Livingston, a Republican who represented Louisiana's 1st congressional district from 1977 to 1998.

In 1960, Reese, then the Republican national committeeman from Louisiana, was also the Republican standard bearer in the U. S. Senate election against Allen J. Ellender but secured only a fifth of the ballots cast, as John F. Kennedy won Louisiana's then ten electoral votes.

The Allen J. Ellender Memorial Library on the campus of Nicholls State University is named after him.

Ellender retorted that Reese's allegation came with " ill grace for the spokesman for the member of a party which has permitted the establishment of a Red-dominated beach head only ninety miles from our shores to attack my record against the spread of communism.

The dish gained more widespread popularity in the 1970s, after the United States Senate cafeteria added it to the menu in honor of Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender.

It gained a broader profile after the death of United States Senator Allen Ellender.

Johnston became the Democratic nominee in a manner somewhat reminiscent of how Ellender had won the Senate seat in 1936 after the death of Governor Allen.

On August 1, 1972, Edwin Edwards appointed Elaine to the U. S. Senate after the death of Allen Ellender.

While Governor he appointed Elaine to the Senate to fill out the unfinished term of Allen Ellender, who died while in office.

After he dispatched Lafargue and Mills, Long overwhelmed his Republican opponent, Charles S. Gerth, a businessman from New Orleans, who had also run for senator in 1948 against Long's long-term colleague, Allen J. Ellender, but as a Democrat.

Ellender ran 24, 889 votes ahead of the John F. Kennedy-Lyndon Johnson ticket, but 265, 965 votes cast in the presidential race ignored the Senate contest, a phenomenon that would later be called an " undervote.

* Rich Ellender is a professional football player He spent one season with the Houston Oilers, which drafted him in the ninth round of the 1979 NFL Draft.

Leading supporters of the longstanding project were Louisiana Democratic senators Allen J. Ellender, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. and Russell B.

However, his Louisiana colleague, Allen J. Ellender, circulated a letter urging him to run.

Rather than seek reelection to the House, Sandlin ran unsuccessfully in the 1936 Democratic primary against Allen J. Ellender for an open seat in the U. S. Senate.

A native of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Ellender had often cooked gumbo for his colleagues, including five American presidents.

After Ellender died in 1972, the Senate directed their cafeteria to add Louisiana Creole Gumbo, made with seafood, to its menu in his honor.

Livingston is married to the former Bonnie Robichaux ( also born 1943 ), a native of Raceland in Lafourche Parish and niece of former United States Senator Allen J. Ellender.

During the summer of 2007 Boston lost their entire squad but for Stewart Talbot and Paul Ellender, and new manager Tommy Taylor had to start from scratch.

In his first year in office, Edwards appointed his wife Elaine S. Edwards, also a native of Avoyelles Parish, to complete the Senate term of the deceased Allen J. Ellender.

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the U. S. Army, proposed the creation of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, supported the elimination of state poll taxes ( which effectively discriminated against poor blacks and whites ), and supported drafting federal anti-lynching laws.

In 1948, 95. 85 percent of voters supported Harry S. Truman, in 1960 76. 9 percent of voters chose John F. Kennedy and in 1964, 84. 1 percent of voters supported Lyndon Johnson.

# Cecil Rhodes, then Prime Minister of the British Cape Colony ( part of modern South Africa ) was expanding his British South Africa Company's charter lands from the south and threatening to occupy Katanga ( southern Congo ) by exploiting the ' Principle of Effectivity ' loophole in the Berlin Treaty, supported by Harry Johnston, British Commissioner for Central Africa who was London's representative in the region.

" This dissolution, which was originally proposed by Norway and supported by other European delegates, as well as the United States and Morgenthau and Harry Dexter White, was never accomplished.

American Jews voted 90 % against the Republicans and supported Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman in the elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948, despite both party platforms supporting the creation of a Jewish state in the latter two elections.

Prior to his becoming editor, The Freeman had supported Senator Joseph McCarthy in his conflict with President Harry Truman on the issue of communism, " undiscriminatingly " according to some critics, but upon becoming editor, Hazlitt changed the magazine's policy to one of support for President Truman.

He supported Harry Truman for President in 1948 ( Truman received just over ten percent of the vote in Mississippi ), Adlai Stevenson in 1952, and had an affectionate reverence for Franklin D. Roosevelt going back to the days of his then-Congressman father's friendship with the then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( and he and his siblings had known the Roosevelt children ).

A fleet including HMS Eclipse, Esk, Fawn, Himalaya, Miranda, Orpheus, Wasp, gunboats ; Koheroa, Paparata, Rangiriri and various support vessels ; Kate, Light of the Age, Prince Albert, Reliance, Sandfly, Sir Harry Smith, Spitfire, Star of India, Stuart, Wakool and Tarawera supported the war effort either on the Waikato River, landing troops and supplies at Miranda in the Firth Of Thames, or bringing troops and a regular stream of supplies from Australia.

He was a Cold War liberal, and supported President Harry S. Truman's containment of Soviet expansionism and domestic measures like public housing, federal aid to education, and farm price supports.

Other early performers included The Stillettos, featuring Deborah Harry, Elda Gentile and Amanda Jones on vocals, and Chris Stein on guitar ), who supported Television on May 5, 1974.

Dent was supported by Sir Rutherford Alcock, and Admiral Sir Harry Keppel.

" This position is supported by Library of Congress historian Fred Howard, co-editor of the Wright brothers ' papers, and by aviation writers Martin Caidin and Harry B. Combs.

After World War II, President Harry Truman supported a civil rights bill and desegregated the military.

The British ambassador Harry Smith Parkes supported the anti-Shogunate forces in a drive to establish a legitimate, unified Imperial rule in Japan, and to counter French influence with the Shogunate.

Unlike other Southern Democratic governors, Cherry supported Harry S. Truman for re-election in 1948.

" Elder supported presidential candidates Harry Browne in 2000, George W. Bush in 2004, and John McCain in 2008.

In the 1944 elections, both the American Labor and Liberal parties supported Roosevelt for President, but by 1948 the two parties diverged, with the Liberals nominating Harry S. Truman and the American Labor Party nominating Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace.

According to Clark, the opinions of recognized polygraph experts were divided about the propriety of McCarthy's exam: Harry Reed supported the validity of McCarthy's exam, while psychologist David Raskin of the University of Utah asserted that McCarthy's method was " more than 30 years out of date.

Fred Jerome in his Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East argues that Einstein was a Cultural Zionist who supported the idea of a Jewish homeland but opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine “ with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power .” Instead, he preferred a bi-national state with “ continuously functioning, mixed, administrative, economic, and social organizations .” However Ami Isseroff in his article Was Einstein a Zionist argues that Einstein was not opposed to the state of Israel given that Einstein declared it “ the fulfillment of our dreams .” Perceiving its vulnerability after independence, he again set aside his pacifism in the name of human preservation, when president Harry Truman recognized Israel in May 1948. In the November 1948 presidential election Einstein supported former vice-president Henry A. Wallace ’ s Progressive Party, which advocated a pro-Soviet foreign policy – but which also at the time ( like the USSR ) strongly supported the new state of Israel.