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Who Was John C. Stennis And Why Does He Have An Aircraft Carrier Named After Him?
After winning the special election that placed him in the country's capital, long before he had a nuclear aircraft carrier named after him, he made many constituents, specifically farmers, happy by passing a law that paved rural roads throughout …