Type,
class: Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG; Arleigh Burke
class, Flight III
Builder: Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding,
Pascagoula, Missisippi, USA
STATUS:
Awarded: September 27, 2018
Laid
down: June 28, 2021
Launched:
Christened:
Commissioned:
under construction
Homeport:
Namesake: Senator Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr.
(1923-2010)
Ships
Motto: -
Technical Data: see:
INFO > Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG |
Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 -
August 9, 2010)
... was an American politician who served as a United States
Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the
longest-serving Republican U.S. Senator in history at the
time he left office; his record was surpassed in January
2017 by Orrin Hatch from Utah. He was the president pro
tempore of the United States Senate in the 108th and 109th
Congresses from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007, and was
the third U.S. Senator to hold the title of president pro
tempore emeritus.
Stevens served for six decades in the American public
sector, beginning with his service in World War II. In 1952,
his law career took him to Fairbanks, Alaska, where he was
appointed U.S. Attorney the following year. In 1956, he
returned to Washington, D.C., to work in the Eisenhower
Interior Department, where he played an important role in
bringing about statehood for Alaska. He was elected to the
Alaska House of Representatives in 1964 and became House
majority leader in his second term. In 1968, Stevens ran
unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for U.S.
Senate, but was appointed to Alaska's other Senate seat when
it became vacant later that year. As a Senator, Stevens
played key roles in legislation that shaped Alaska's
economic and social development, including the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Authorization Act, the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act, and the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act. He was also known for his
sponsorship of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which
resulted in the establishment of the United States Olympic
Committee.
In 2008, Stevens was embroiled in a federal corruption trial
as he ran for reelection to the Senate. He was initially
found guilty and eight days later was narrowly defeated at
the polls. Stevens was the most senior U.S. Senator to have
ever lost a reelection bid. However, prior to Stevens's
sentencing, the indictment was dismissed - effectively
vacating the conviction - when a Justice Department probe
found evidence of gross prosecutorial misconduct.
Stevens died on August 9, 2010, when a de Havilland Canada
DHC-3 Otter he and several others were flying in crashed en
route to a private fishing lodge.
source: wikipedia
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