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\"North Carolina Senator\" Alton Lennon Signed FDC Dated 1963:
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Up for sale "North Carolina Senator" Alton Lennon Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963. 

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Alton Asa Lennon (August 17,

1906 – December 28, 1986) of Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C., was

a Democratic U.S. senator from the

state of North Carolina between

1953 and 1954, and later, a member of the U.S. House 7th congressional district from 1957 to 1973. Lennon

was one of the very few former United States Senators in modern times (the only

other examples being James Wolcott Wadsworth

Jr. from New York, Claude Pepper from Florida, Hugh Mitchell from Washington, and Garrett Withers from Kentucky) to be elected to the House after their Senate

careers. (Matthew M. Neely from West Virginia was also elected to the House after his

Senate career, but he had been elected to the House before his Senate career as

well.) Lennon was born in Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C.,

August 17, 1906. He was the son of Rosser Yates Lennon and Minnie (High)

Lennon. He attended the public schools, and graduated from Wake Forest College in

1929. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and began practice in Wilmington. He

married Karine Welch on October 12, 1933. Lennon served as the judge of New

Hanover County Recorder's Court from 1934–1942. He was elected to the North Carolina State

Senate in 1947, and served until 1951. Lennon was appointed on

July 10, 1953, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy

caused by the death of Willis Smith and

served from July 10, 1953, to November 28, 1954. He was an unsuccessful

candidate for the nomination in 1954 to fill the vacancy. He resumed law

practice, then was elected as a Democrat to the 85th Congress, and was reelected to the seven succeeding

Congresses (January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1973). Lennon voted in

Congress against civil rights and social legislation, although about half of

the constituents in his district were African-Americans or Native Americans. In 1966, he was the only Southerner to vote against

citing seven Ku Klux Klan leaders

for contempt of Congress. He said, "I never heard it said that Klansmen

were subversive or affiliated with any foreign government to overthrow the

United States." In 1966, Mr. Lennon urged that North Vietnamese ports be bombed, and in 1967 he called

for the Justice Department to

prosecute Stokely Carmichael, the

black activist, for making statements against the military draft. He declined to seek

reelection in 1972. In 1976, the Federal

Building and Courthouse at Wilmington was named in his honor.

Although he was a Democrat, Mr. Lennon campaigned for the re-election of

Senator Jesse Helms, the

conservative Republican, in 1978. He was a resident of Wilmington, N.C., until

his death there December 28, 1986. 

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