This senator's membership on the Senate Armed Forces Committee from 1969 to 1980 resulted in his receiving the nickname "Father of America's Modern Navy.
This politician was the prosecutor in the case which barred evidence obtained by coercion from court cases. In addition to serving as the prosecutor in Brown v. Mississippi, this senator was chair of the Senate Ethics Committee, where he led the investigation of Thomas J. Dodd in 1967 for misuse of funds which resulted in this senator's writing of the first Senate ethics code. One proposal involving this senator would have allowed him to listen to Nixon's tapes in order to verify the accuracy of White House summaries of them; Archibold Cox was discharged for disagreeing with this plan which was known as this senator's namesake compromise. This senator's membership on the Senate Armed Forces Committee from 1969 to 1980 resulted in his receiving the nickname "Father of America's Modern Navy." For 10 points, name this Democratic Senator from Mississippi nicknamed "the Conscience of the Senate" who served from 1947 to 1989 before being replaced by Trent Lott, and who has a nuclear aircraft carrier named after him.
This politician was the prosecutor in the case which barred evidence obtained by coercion from court cases.
John Cornelius {Stennis}