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3 unusual facts about Allen J. Ellender


Allen J. Ellender

As of 2009, the Senate Dining Room still served "Ellender Gumbo."

Early in his tenure, the Audubon Society, with an interest in the ivory-billed woodpecker, which faced extinction, persuaded Ellender to work for the establishment of the proposed Tensas Swamp National Park to preserve bird habitat: 60,000 acres of land owned by the Singer Sewing Company in Madison Parish in northeastern Louisiana.

Raystown Lake

At the time the Chairman of the Senate Public Works Committee, Senator Allen J. Ellender, did not approve of funding this unnecessary project.


Allen J. Greenough

Though both the Pennsylvania and the Central struggled through the 1950s on the dividends from their large investments in border state coal haulers—the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and Western—the Penn Central merger created a massive system from two weakened giants.

New York Railroad Club; American Railway Engineering Association; Presbyterian; Republican; Mason, Sundbury Lodge 713; Williamsport Consistory; Thirty-second Degree Zembo Temple.

Allen Scott

Allen J. Scott (born 1938), professor of geography and public policy

Charles R. Martin

He was a Robert A. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Allen J. Bard in University of Texas at Austin.

Jefferson B. Snyder

The list of honorary pallbearers reads like a "Who's Who" of state and delta politicians: Russell B. Long, Allen J. Ellender, John B. Fournet, Otto Passman, Ben C. Dawkins, Sr., Joseph E. Ransdell, W. W. Burnside, Joseph T. Curry, Andrew L. Sevier, Judge Frank Voelker, and successor District Attorney Thompson L. Clarke of Snyder's native St. Joseph.

Red River of the South

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

The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry

The first award went to Allen J. Bard from University of Texas at Austin and was presented from University of Texas at Austin and was presented on on Monday, March 5, 1984 in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the 1984 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy in the “Symposium on New Techniques in Electroanalytical Chemistry”.

Turin School of Development

Lectures frequently includes prominent international professors such as Prof. David Throsby, Prof. Allen Scott, Prof. Massimo Marelli (rector of University of Naples), Prof. Gianmaria Ajani (dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Turin) and Prof Helmut Anheier.


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