After President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Talmadge , along with more than a dozen other southern senators , boycotted the 1964 Democratic National Convention . With the help of Senator Richard Russell , Talmadge had gained appointment to the Agriculture Committee during his first year in Washington and to the Senate Finance Committee shortly thereafter . Given his successive re-elections from the one-party state of Georgia , Talmadge gained the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Agriculture Committee by seniority . He sponsored bills to help white farmers , an important constituency
1964 Democratic National Convention
1964 Democratic National Convention
Herman Talmadge