Thomas Terry Connally was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the US Senate and the House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party.
14 Facts About Tom Connally
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Tom Connally served in the US House of Representatives from 1917 to 1929, and in the US Senate from 1929 to 1953.
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Tom Connally led the opposition to federal anti-lynching legislation in the late 1930s, filibustering the Anti-Lynching Bill of 1937.
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Tom Connally advocated in favor of Jim Crow laws, for example opposing equal education for black people.
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Tom Connally worked with Republican Senator Arthur H Vandenberg to ensure bipartisan support for an internationalist policy, including the new United Nations.
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Tom Connally led the committee in supporting the Truman Doctrine in 1947, the Marshall Plan in 1948 and NATO in 1949.
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Tom Connally later attended the University of Texas School of Law, earning his LL.
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Tom Connally ran unopposed and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1900 and 1902.
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Tom Connally was a member and vice-chairman of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945 that chartered the United Nations.
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On October 20,1951, when General Mark Wayne Clark, an Episcopalian whose mother was Jewish, was nominated by President Harry Truman to be the US emissary to the Holy See, Tom Connally protested against the decision on the basis that Clark was alleged to have caused a large number of needless deaths at the Battle of Rapido River.
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In 1953, Tom Connally retired from the Senate, ending his career in national politics.
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Mr Tom Connally was the first to move for the recommendation to the General Assembly to accept the applications of Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden, after they had been approved by the Security Council.
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Tom Connally later married Lucile Sanderson Sheppard, the widow of his former Senate colleague, Morris Sheppard of Texarkana, Texas.
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Tom Connally is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Texas, next to his first wife.