- James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina
| Born: | 05 December 1902 Comment | | When did Strom Thurmond die? / Died | 26 June 2003 | | How many years did Strom Thurmond live? / Lived | 100 years | | Zodiac sign: | Sagittarius |
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Strom Thurmond facts
- He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2
- 4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes
- Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican
- A magnet for controversy during his nearly half-century Senate career, Thurmond switched parties because of his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, disaffection with the liberalism of the national party, and his support for the conservatism of the Republican presidential candidate Senator Barry Goldwater
- He left office as the only member of either house of Congress to reach the age of 100 while still in office, and as the oldest-serving and longest-serving senator in U
- S
- history (although he was later surpassed in length of service by Robert Byrd and Daniel Inouye)
- Thurmond holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress to serve exclusively in the Senate
- He is also the longest-serving Republican member of Congress in U
- S
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