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Earl Buford Ellington (June 27, 1907 – April 3, 1972) was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of Tennessee from 1959 to 1963, and again from 1967 to 1971.
Oct 8, 2017 · Buford Ellington, governor of Tennessee from 1959-63 and 1967-71, alternated power both times with uncertain ally Frank Clement. The differences between Ellington’s first and second stints as chief executive, especially in terms of the South’s ageless political issue of race, were a microcosm of the larger changes taking place across the ...
Learn about E. Buford Ellington, who served as governor of Tennessee twice and led the Office of Emergency Planning during the civil rights movement. Read his biography and his conversation with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.
President Nixon mourned the loss of Buford Ellington, former Governor of Tennessee and Director of Emergency Planning, in 1972. He praised Ellington's service to his state and nation in improving rural areas and economic development.
Jan 18, 2019 · EARL BUFORD ELLINGTON was born near Lexington, Mississippi, and studied religion at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He spent eight years as a salesman for International Harvester, bought a farm in 1942, and traveled the state for for the Farm Bureau Insurance System.
Buford Ellington is perhaps best remembered today for being one of Tennessee’s “leap-frog” governors, alternating terms with Frank Clement. For almost twenty years, Clement and Ellington ruled Tennessee from the governor’s office. Ellington was not a native Tennessean, being born in Holmes County, Mississippi June 27, 1907.
Apr 4, 1972 · BOCA RATON, Fla., April 3 (UPI)—Buford Ellington, twice Governor of Tennessee and an influential conservative force in that state's Democratic party for nearly two decades, died, apparently of a...
