* 1884 – Arthur Vandenberg, United States Senator from Michigan ( d. 1951 )

U. S. Senator Joe McCarthy gave a speech titled America's Retreat from Victory: The Story of George Catlett Marshall ( 1951 ), in which he argued that General Albert Coady Wedemeyer had prepared a wise plan that would keep China a valued ally, but that it had been sabotaged.

* Herman Welker, U. S. Senator from Idaho, 1951 – 1957

Alan Stuart " Al " Franken ( born May 21, 1951 ) is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota.

Yockey was also approached by the group around the anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1951.

Constructed in 1951 as Anchorage International Airport, it was renamed by the Alaska Legislature to honor former long-standing U. S. Senator Ted Stevens.

During his career, Byrnes served as a US Representative ( 1911 – 1925 ), a US Senator ( 1931 – 1941 ), a Justice of the Supreme Court ( 1941 – 1942 ), Secretary of State ( 1945 – 1947 ), and 104th governor of South Carolina ( 1951 – 1955 ).

Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg ( March 22, 1884April 18, 1951 ) was a Republican Senator from the U. S. state of Michigan who participated in the creation of the United Nations.

Michael Dean " Crap " Crapo ( ; born May 20, 1951 ) is the senior United States Senator from the state of Idaho and a member of the Republican Party.

Roger Frederick Wicker ( born July 5, 1951 ) is the junior United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party.

In her acceptance speech to the Senate, Luce commented that her troubles with Senator Morse were attributable to the injuries he sustained from being kicked by a horse in 1951.

Cooper considered running for governor in 1951, but when Senator Chapman was killed in an automobile accident on March 8, 1951, he decided to make another run for the Senate against Thomas R. Underwood, Governor Lawrence Wetherby's appointee to fill the vacancy.

James Warren " Jim " DeMint ( born September 2, 1951 ) is the junior United States Senator from South Carolina, serving since 2005.

* Zales Ecton, ( 1919 ) Montana Senator served 1947 – 1951

It has not elected a Democratic Senator since 1977 in Class 1 and since 1951 in Class 3.

On October 12, 1951, São João Airport was renamed Salgado Filho Airport, after the Senator and Minister who died the year before on a crash involving a SAVAG aircraft that departed from Porto Alegre.

A member of the Republican Party, he served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1957.

Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven ( April 13, 1865 in Havana, Cuba-August 24, 1951 in Havana, Cuba ) was a Cuban lawyer, professor of Public and Private International Law, Senator to the Cuban Congress, politician and two-time Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague ( 1922 – 1944 ).

James Thomas Heflin ( April 9, 1869 – April 22, 1951 ), nicknamed " Cotton Tom ", was a leading proponent of white supremacy, most notably as a Democratic United States Senator from Alabama.

A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1951 to 1974.

He was a Democratic Senator from Arizona from 1941 to 1953 ( Majority Leader from 1951 to 1953 ) before serving as the tenth Governor of Arizona from 1955 to 1959.

Following the death of U. S. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Moody was appointed on April 22, 1951, as a Democrat to the United States Senate.

In 1951, after the outbreak of the Korean War, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy said that Wedemeyer had prepared a wise plan that would keep China a valued ally, but that it had been sabotaged ; " only in treason can we find why evil genius thwarted and frustrated it.

* William " Willie " Moretti ( 1894 – 1951 ), Mafia gangster who testified before the Anti-Crime Investigation Committee ( Kefauver Committee ) and was shot dead in a Cliffside Park, New Jersey restaurant.

From May 1950 to May 1951, the US Senate conducted a large scale investigation of organized crime, commonly known as the Kefauver Hearings.

In fact, in 1951, Kefauver appeared as a celebrity guest on the new game show What's My Line?

However, on October 4, 1951, Moretti was assassinated by order of the Mafia Commission ; the mob bosses were unhappy with his testimony during the U. S. Senate Kefauver Hearings.

In 1951, the U. S. Senate summoned Anastasia to answer questions about organized crime at the Kefauver Hearings.

The Kefauver hearings about country-wide organized crime and corruption, were held between 1950 and 1951.

Kefauver relinquished the committee chair on April 30, 1951, and Senator O ' Conor assumed the chairmanship until the committee folded on September 1, 1951.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

* 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records " Rocket 88 ", often cited as " the first rock and roll record ", at Sam Phillips ' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

Sun Studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, where in 1951 Turner and the Kings of Rhythm recorded Rocket 88, one of the first Rock and roll records.

# Tennessee ( February 20, 1951 )

In 1951, a fall suffered during a hunting trip in Tennessee reactivated his old back pains.

In February 2005, the Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling stating that Williams's heirs — son, Hank Williams Jr., and daughter, Jett Williams — have the sole rights to sell his recordings made for a Nashville radio station in 1951.

* 1951: The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

It was elevated to university status in 1951, renamed the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial University, and got full-fledged land-grant university status by the Tennessee State Board of Education in 1958.

McCarthy attended the University of Tennessee from 1951 – 52 and 1957 – 59 but never graduated.

This led to the first of many recording sessions for the Tennessee Records label starting in 1951.

In 1951, Page released the follow-up single to " Tennessee Waltz " called " Would I Love You ( Love You, Love You )," which was a Top 5 hit, and also sold a million copies.

Baker was born in Huntsville, in Scott County, Tennessee, the son of Dora Ann ( née Ladd ) and Howard H. Baker, Sr. His father served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1951 until 1964, representing a traditionally Republican district in East Tennessee.

While Capitol was reluctant to release this song, after they had scored several more hits with Capitol, including, ' Tennessee Waltz " and " Mockin ’ Bird Hill ", " How High The Moon " was released in March 1951.

In 1951, the Tennessee Baptists closed the College of Arts and Sciences and operated only the School of Law.

The University of Tennessee Junior College operated under this name until 1951, when, with the addition of four-year fields of study leading to a bachelor's degree, it was redesignated the University of Tennessee Martin Branch.

Stepping in because Anna Magnani refused the role due to her limited English, Stapleton won a Tony Award for her role in Tennessee Williams ' The Rose Tattoo in 1951.

The stations were: WCMA-AM, Corinth, Mississippi, 1946 ; WENK-AM, Union City, Tennessee, 1947 ; WDXI-AM, Jackson, Tennessee, 1948 ; WDXE-AM, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, 1951 ; WTPR-AM, Paris, Tennessee, 1953 ; WDXN-AM, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1954, and WDXI-TV, Jackson, Tennessee, 1954.