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Samuel James Ervin Jr. (September 27, 1896 – April 23, 1985) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A Southern Democrat , he liked to call himself a " country lawyer ", and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl . [ 1 ]
Incumbent Democratic Senator Sam Ervin was re-elected to a second term in office over Republican farmer [1] Claude Greene Jr. Ervin was elected to a second full (six-year) term, though by a somewhat smaller margin than he enjoyed in his victory in 1956.
The general election was fought between the Democratic incumbent Sam Ervin and the Republican nominee Robert Somers. Ervin won re-election to a third full term, with over 60% of the vote. [1] This was the last time any incumbent was re-elected in this seat until 2010. [2]
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of eight subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee.The subcommittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church and the Church Commission — led to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
McClellan, Ervin, McCarthy, and Mundt were drawn from Government Operations, and Kennedy, McNamara, Ives, and Goldwater from Labor. [5] An equal number of Democrats and Republicans sat on the Select Committee. [17] Senator McClellan was named chair of the Select Committee, and Republican Senator Irving Ives of New York vice chair.
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From left to right: minority counsel Fred Thompson, ranking member Howard Baker, and chair Sam Ervin of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973. Hearings opened on May 17, 1973, and the Committee issued its seven-volume, 1,250-page report on June 27, 1974, titled Report on Presidential Campaign Activities. The first weeks of the committee's ...