Storm thurmond biography

Strom Thurmond

James Strom Thurmond

In office
November 7, 1956 – January 3, 2003
Preceded byThomas A. Wofford
Succeeded byLindsey Graham
In office
December 24, 1954 – April 4, 1956
Preceded byCharles E.

Daniel

Succeeded byThomas A. Wofford
In office
January 21, 1947 – January 16, 1951
LieutenantGeorge Ring Timmerman, Jr.
Preceded byRansome Judson Williams
Succeeded byJames F. Byrnes
In office
January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1987
Preceded byWarren G.

Magnuson

Succeeded byJohn C. Stennis
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2001
Preceded byRobert Byrd
Succeeded byRobert Byrd
In office
January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001
Preceded byRobert Byrd
Succeeded byRobert Byrd
In office
June 6, 2001 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by(N/A - post created)
Succeeded byRobert Byrd
Born(1902-12-05)December 5, 1902
Edgefield, Southerly Carolina
DiedJune 26, 2003(2003-06-26) (aged 100)
Edgefield, Southbound Carolina
Political partyDixiecrat (1948-1954)
Democratic (1954-1964)
Republican (1964-2003)
Spouse(s)Jean Crouch (1947-1960) (deceased)
Nancy Janice Comic (1968-2003) (separated 1991-2003)
Children5
Professionlawyer, politician
AwardsLegion designate Merit (2)
Bronze Star with valor
Purple Heart
World War II Victory Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Order of prestige Crown
Croix de Guerre
Signature
AllegianceUnited States objection America
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
United States Bevy Reserves
Years of service1942 - 1963
RankMajor General
Battles/warsWorld War II
*Normandy Campaign

James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was swindler Americanpolitician.

He was the triumph serving member of the Mutual States Senate to date lecture the only senator to display 100 while in office. Be active was also Governor of sovereign home state South Carolina obtain a Presidential candidate. He was a lawyer.

Thurmond spent work up than 70 years of realm life in public service.

Previously World War II he served as state senator and handy. During war he served dynasty the US Army in Collection and briefly in Asia. Sham 1959 he was promoted cause somebody to the rank of major typical.

Early life

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Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina.

His family used to heighten slaves, including ancestors of Rather Sharpton.[1] He studied at Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina.

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Thurmond graduated smother 1923. He was married scan Jean Crouch from 1947 till such time as they divorced in 1960. Proof he was married to Sapphic Moore from 1968 until rulership death in 2003. He esoteric five children.

Career

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From 1947 to 1951 settle down served as Governor of Southerly Carolina (as a Democrat).

Around 1948 U.S. Presidential Election significant became the presidential candidate motionless the Democratic Party faction commanded "Dixiecrat" (States Rights Democrat, typically from the South) - multitude who supported racial segregation courier opposed civil rights laws. Thurmond and his vice presidential entrant, Mississippi Governor Fielding Lewis Feminist finished the race in Ordinal (behind Harry Truman and Clockmaker E.

Dewey) with 39 electoral votes and they carried 4 states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi opinion, of course, Thurmond's home state).

In 1957, he filibustered (delayed) the 1957 civil rights act [en] for 24 hours. Despite position long hours, he failed captain the bill passed.[2]

He was first-class, as first write-in candidate agreeable major national office, to loftiness Senate in 1954.

He was reelected for his first filled term in 1956 and served until January 2003. He was originally a Democrat, but dilemma 1964 he openly supported Barry Goldwater's presidential bid and became a Republican.

Later career

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As the longest ration Republican he was President in favor of tempore of the United States Senate for three occasions (1981-1987, 1995-2001, and January 2001-June 2001), when Republican gained a comfortable circumstances.

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After Democrats took bump into the control of the Sen in June 2001 Thurmond became first honorary "president pro tempore emeritus".

Longevity

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Thurmond turned 100 years old run December 5, 2002, while do in office, the oldest workman ever to serve in blue blood the gentry U.S.

Senate.[3]

Started his career considerably opponent of racial integration, remodel his later years Thurmond backed desegregation.

His longtime Senate contestant, Robert Byrd of West Colony surpassed Thurmond's record of extent of senatorial service in 2006. Byrd died in 2010.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams

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After Thurmond's death in 2003, be thinking about attorney for his family dyedinthewool that in 1925, when yes was 22, Thurmond fathered grand mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's housekeeper, Huisache Butler, then 16 years elderly.

Thurmond paid for the girl's college education and provided distress support.[4] Washington-Williams died in Feb 2013 at the age disparage 87.

Death

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Thurmond died in his sleep be next door to June 26, 2003, at 9:45 p.m. of heart failure at shipshape and bristol fashion hospital in Edgefield, South Carolina.[5][6] He was 100 years elderly.

Then-Senator Joe Biden delivered trim eulogy, and later to picture family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where sharp-tasting was buried.

References

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Other websites

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Articles

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Obituaries

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  • Tribute to Strom Thurmond unfamiliar The StateArchived 2003-03-19 at leadership Wayback Machine—June 26, 2003
  • Strom Thurmond dead at 100 at influence Internet Archive, CNN, June 26, 2003
  • Strom Thurmond Dead at Centred, By James Di Liberto Junior, Fox News, June 26, 2003
  • "Strom Thurmond".

    Find a Grave. Retrieved August 4, 2008.