Career
In 1978, Representative Cochran did not seek a fourth term in the House but was elected instead to the United States Senate, where he still serves. Hinson was elected to succeed his boss, winning with 51.6 percent of the vote. The Democrat John Hampton Stennis, the son of U.S. Senator John Stennis, polled 26.4 percent of the vote, and the remaining ballots were cast for Independent candidates.
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“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what’s good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
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