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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaELLENDER, Allen Joseph
(1890—1972)
Senate Years of Service:
1937-1972
Party:
Democrat
ELLENDER, Allen Joseph, a Senator from Louisiana; born in Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, La., September 24, 1890; attended the public and private schools; graduated from St. Aloysius College, New Orleans, La., in 1909 and from the law department of Tulane University, New Orleans, La., 1913; admitted to the bar in 1913 and commenced practice in Houma, La.; city attorney of Houma 1913-1915; district attorney of Terrebonne Parish 1915-1916; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the Artillery Corps, United States Army 1917-1918; delegate to the constitutional convention of Louisiana in 1921; Democratic national committeeman from Louisiana 1939-1940; member, State house of representatives 1924-1936, serving as floor leader 1928-1932 and as speaker 1932-1936; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1936; reelected in 1942, 1948, 1954, 1960, and 1966, and served from January 3, 1937, until his death on July 27, 1972; President pro tempore of the Senate during the Ninety-second Congress; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth through Ninety-first Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Ninety-second Congress); died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md.; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Houma, La.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Becnel, Thomas A. Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana: A Biography
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services
. 92nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1972. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1974.
Becnel, Thomas A. “Allen J. Ellender, Consensus Politician.” Louisiana History
32 (Summer 1991): 229-38.
___. “The Ellenders: Pioneer Terrebonne Parish Family, 1840-1924.” Louisiana History
26 (Spring 1985): 117-27.
___. “Fulbright of Arkansas v. Ellender of Louisiana: The Politics of Sugar and Rice, 1937-1974.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
43 (Winter 1984): 289-303.
___. “Louisiana Senator Allen J. Ellender and IWW Leader Covington Hall: An Agrarian Dichotomy.” Louisiana History
23 (Summer 1982): 259-75.
___. Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana: A Biography
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services, Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Tributes Presented in Eulogy of Allen J. Ellender, Late a Senator from Louisiana
. 92d Cong., 2d sess., 1972. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974.
U.S. Congress. Tributes to the Honorable Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana in the United States Senate: Upon the Occasion of His Eighty-first Birthday
. 92d Cong., 1st sess., 1971. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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