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Joseph Landon Evins (October 24, 1910 – March 31, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician who served 15 terms as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1947 to 1977. Early life [ edit ]
Joe L. Evins interrupted his career in Washington, D. C. to enter the Army with the coming of World War II. Evins, with his legal background, was assigned to the Judge Advocate General Corps. Evins remained in the Army until 1946, when he returned home to Smithville.
8 de oct. de 2017 · Joe L. Evins was the “Dean” of Tennessee's congressional delegation during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1910 in DeKalb County to James Edgar Evins and Myrtie Goodson Evins, Joe L. Evins attended Vanderbilt University, graduating in 1933.
The Evins papers included 100,000 pieces of correspondence, 2000 photographs, 1000 documents, 100 scrapbooks, speeches, and personal records, 300 artifacts, 400 volumes, and 150 maps and facsimiles. The core of the collection is the Congressional Papers.
Joe L. Evins, the Representative from Tennessee - in Congress from 1975 through 1977
2 de abr. de 1984 · Former Representative Joe L. Evins, Democrat of Tennessee, who served 30 years in Congress and was for many years the dean of his state's Congressional delegation, died after a heart attack...
The collection of Joe L. Evins includes a replica of his congressional office, 3,700 photographs, over 1,000 pieces of memorabilia, family papers, military records, scrapbooks, his personal library, business files, portraits, motion picture film, video tape, and sound recordings.
