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Senate Years of Service: 1951-1960 Party: Democrat
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HENNINGS, Thomas Carey, Jr., a Representative and a Senator from Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., June 25,
1903; attended the public schools; graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1924 and
from the law department of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1926; admitted to the bar in
1926 and commenced practice in St. Louis; served as assistant circuit attorney for St. Louis
1929-1934; served as a colonel on the Governors staff 1932-1936; lecturer on criminal
jurisprudence at the Benton College of Law, St. Louis, Mo., 1934-1938; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses and served from January 3, 1935,
until his resignation on December 31, 1940, to become a candidate for circuit attorney of St. Louis;
circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis 1941-1944; served as a lieutenant commander in the United
States Naval Reserve during Second World War 1941-1943; resumed the practice of law; elected
as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1950, reelected in 1956, and served from January 3,
1951, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 13, 1960; chairman, Committee on Rules and
Administration (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses); interment in Arlington National Cemetery,
Arlington, Va.
BibliographyKemper, Donald. Decade of Fear: Senator
Hennings and Civil Liberties. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965; United States
Congress. Memorial Services. 86th Cong., 2nd sess., 1960. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1961.
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