CARTER COATTAIL CARL PERKINS EASTERN KENTUCKY CONGRESS POLITICAL PINBACK BUTTON

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Offering another
HARD TO FIND
vintage U. S. political election
campaign pinback button for your growing collection...
Longtime Kentucky Congressman Carl D. Perkins...in a neat "TRIGATE" BUTTON running on the coattails of Jimmy Carter for President, Walter Mondale for Vice-President 1976
Rep. Perkins died in office and was succeeded by his son, Carl C. "Chris" Perkins.
Carl Dewey Perkins
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 7th district
In office=
January 3, 1949 – August 3, 1984
Preceded by
Wendell H. Meade
Succeeded by
Carl C. Perkins
Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
In office=
1941
Personal details
Born
October 15, 1912
Hindman, Kentucky
Died
August 3, 1984 (aged 71)
Lexington, Kentucky
Political party
Democratic Party
Spouse(s)
Verna Johnson
​                               ​(m. 1938; died 1984)​
Children
Chris Perkins
Alma mater
University of Louisville School of Law
Occupation
Attorney
Carl Dewey Perkins
(October 15, 1912 – August 3, 1984), a Democrat, was a politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kentucky serving from 1949 until his death from a heart attack in Lexington, Kentucky in 1984.
Early years
Carl Dewey Perkins was born in Hindman, Kentucky on October 15, 1912, to Dora Calhoun Perkins and James Perkins.  Perkins attended high school at Hindman High School and Caney Junior College (now Alice Lloyd College). He worked as a teacher in a Knott County School for 90 students.  He then went on to attend the Jefferson School of Law (now known as the University of Louisville School of Law) and graduated in 1935.  He passed the bar and served a term as a commonwealth attorney for the thirty-first judicial district of Kentucky.
In 1938 Perkins married Verna Johnson and they had one son, Carl C. Perkins.
During World War II, Perkins enlisted in the United States Army and served a tour in Europe.
In 1940, Perkins was elected as a member of the Kentucky General Assembly was then elected Knott County Attorney in 1941 and reelected in 1945. Perkins resigned January 1, 1948 so that he could counsel the Department of Highways for Frankfort, Kentucky.
He was elected to serve as a Kentucky Representative in 1948 winning against the incumbent Wendell H. Meade.
Congress
In 1948 Perkins ran against the incumbent Congressman from Kentucky's 7th District, Wendell H. Meade. Perkins unseated Meade and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death.  Perkins was the chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (Ninetieth through Ninety-eighth Congresses, 1967–1984).  While a part of the committee, his work helped produce the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and Head Start. The local Head Start in his home city of Hindman, Kentucky is named after Congressman Perkins.
Perkins did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964 (where Perkins was the only yes vote from Kentucky), and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Death
Carl D. Perkins died August 3, 1984, in Lexington, Kentucky after complaining of feeling ill on a flight from Washington. He fell ill on the plane and was pronounced dead of a heart attack on arrival at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
His funeral was widely attended as he was widely regarded as a popular Kentucky politician over the course of his career. Many of his colleagues flew to Kentucky to pay their respects along with thousands of native Kentucky residents.
The funeral proceedings were hosted in the Knott County High School gymnasium that was filled to capacity by colleagues and constituents of the congressman all of which were there to pay their respects.  Notable attendees included Senator Edward Kennedy, House Majority Leader Jim Wright, Congressman William H. Natcher and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neil who gave the eulogy.
Perkins was succeeded in office by his son, Carl C. Perkins.
Legacy
A painting of the confluence of the Ohio and Scioto Rivers, showing the Carl Perkins Bridge. Artist Herb Roe
Perkins's legacy of support to education and the under-privileged is shown by the federal student loan called the Perkins Loan, named for him, as is the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, which provides federal money for career technical education schooling. The Carl D. Perkins Bridge crossing the Ohio River, the Carl D. Perkins Building on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University, and the Carl D. Perkins Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Ashland, Kentucky are named after him. The vocational school in Hindman, Kentucky at Knott County Central High School, Carl D. Perkins Job Corps at Prestonsburg and Carl D. Perkins Rehab Center at Thelma are also named in his honor. Kentucky highway 80 in Hazard, Kentucky is named the Carl D. Perkins Parkway. The Carl D. Perkins Parkway stretches from Hazard, Kentucky through Carl D. Perkins home county of Knott county, Kentucky. The Carl D. Perkins Parkway connects to the Hal Rogers Parkway in Hazard, Kentucky.
Perkins' grave site is in Hindman, Kentucky, in a public cemetery named "Mountain Memory Gardens". However, he was originally buried at a private cemetery near his home in Hindman. In 2007 Perkins's body was moved to where he is presently buried at Mountain Memory Gardens. Verna J. Perkins sold the old house and the land. She had since retired to a home for the elderly in Lexington, where she died in 2012.
IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE
PERKINS FAMILY
AND LOOKING FOR AN AUTHENTIC CAMPAIGN ITEM FROM ONE OF YOUR RELATIVES,
THIS WOULD BE A REAL SWEET ITEM TO BRING BACK INTO THE FAMILY OR AS A GREAT GIFT!!
SIZE==APPROX. 2 1/4" CELLULOID
"A PICTURE SPEAKS A THOUSAND WORDS"
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MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL...
He Leadeth Me
In pastures green?
Not always; sometimes He
who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me
In many ways where heavy shadows be.
Out of the sunshine warm and soft and bright...
Out of the sunshine into the darkest night,
I oft would faint with sorrow and affright,
Only for this...I know He holds my hand;
so whether in the green or desert land
I trust although I may not understand.
And by still waters?
No, not always so;
Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow,
And o'er my soul the waters and billows go.
But when the storms beat loudest and I cry
aloud for help, the Master standeth by
And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I."
Above the tempest wild I hear Him say,
Beyond this darkness lies a perfect day.
In every path of thine I lead the way.
So whether on the hilltops high and fair
I dwell, or in the sunless valleys where
The shadows lie...what matters?  He is there.
And more than this, where'er the pathway lead
He gives to me no helpless broken reed,
But His own hand, sufficient for my need.
So where He leads me, I can safely go,
And in the blest hereafter I shall know
Why in His wisdom, He hath led me so.
Author Unknown
"BE NOT OVERCOME BY EVIL BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD"  Romans 12:21