Talk:Sonny Montgomery

Obituary

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"The statue was funded and commissioned by MSU students under the direction of Student Association Presidents Josh Blades and Adam Telle (2005)" was included in the page and does not met WP standards.

Agent Orange

As Veterans' Affairs Committee chairman, Montgomery led opposition to the Kerry- Daschle bill (Agent Orange Disabilities Act of 1987, S.1787)that would have required the VA to begin compensating veterans who contracted non-Hodgkins lymphoma and lung cancer a presumed service-connected disease. Montgomery asserted that "further studies were needed to prove a connection between various diseases and Agent Orange before the government should be held liable for disability benefits" despite several such JAMA published studies by the National Cancer Institute and the VA and one by the New Jersey Agent Orange Commission. Rfwarnock (talk) 18:00, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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Requested move 21 June 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. In addition, Sonny Montgomery was the earliest title for this article; it was later merged to the newer article at Gillespie V. Montgomery. Because of this, I have retained the former edit history of Sonny Montgomery at Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery. Dekimasuよ! 07:02, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

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Gillespie V. Montgomery → Sonny Montgomery – "Sonny" is the most WP:COMMONNAME for this former member of the US Congress, based on Google search results and media coverage.

Google results are as follows:

• "Sonny Montgomery" Mississippi: 49.2k
• "G.V. Montgomery" Mississippi: 12k
• "Gillespie V. Montgomery" Mississippi: 6.3k

Additionally on Google, "Rep. Sonny Montgomery" Mississippi returns 2.4k results, and "Rep. G.V. Sonny Montgomery" Mississippi returns 4.7k results, a total of 7.1k results with "Sonny" compared to 3.1k with "Rep. G.V. Montgomery" or hundreds with "Rep. Gillespie V. Montgomery" or "Rep. Gillespie Montgomery".

Also, searching the Vanderbilt Television News Archive [2] shows that TV networks used "Sonny Montgomery" during his political career as early as 1977 until his passing in 2006. In contrast, the last use of "G.V. Montgomery" in a network newscast (usually in the text chyrons) was in 1989.

The archives of Mississippi's largest newspaper The Clarion-Ledger show over 9,600 uses of "Sonny Montgomery" compared to 820+ for "G.V. Montgomery" and fewer than 80 for "Gillespie Montgomery" or "Gillespie V. Montgomery".

Then-President George W. Bush referred to him as "Sonny" during a 2002 speech [3].

The 2006 Associated Press obituary of Montgomery used "Gillespie V. Montgomery" in the headline but in its opening paragraph made sure to include "Sonny". The New York Times used included "Sonny" in its obit headline [4]. Arbor to SJ (talk) 00:35, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

• Support per nom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.71.249.229 (talk) 14:22, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
• Support per nom & WP:PSEUDONYM. Woodlot (talk) 15:02, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

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