Strom Thurmond served in the United States Senate from 1956 to 2003 (interrupted in 1956). He was a supporter of the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald...
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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from...
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James Strom Thurmond Jr. (born October 18, 1972) is a former United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina and 2nd Circuit Solicitor. He is...
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Senate election was held on November 5, 1996, to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Popular incumbent Republican Senator Strom...
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is a former member of the South Carolina Senate. He is the youngest child (and one of three surviving children) of Strom Thurmond, who served in the United...
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Electoral history of Strom Thurmond, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (1947–1951), United States Senator from South Carolina (1954–1956, 1956–2003; Democrat...
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Bass, Jack; Thompson, Marilyn W. (2005). Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond. PublicAffairs. pp. 319–321. ISBN 9781586482978...
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Joe Biden (redirect from 46th President of the US)
U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953. He graduated from the University of Delaware...
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Trent Lott (category Members of Sons of Confederate Veterans)
down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid. From 1968 to...
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Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond. The Dixiecrats hoped to win enough electoral votes to force a contingent election in the House of Representatives, where...
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States Senate career of Joe Biden began on January 3, 1973, and ended on January 15, 2009. A member of the Democratic Party from the state of Delaware...
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Lindsey Graham (redirect from Political positions of Lindsey Graham)
vacated by retiring Republican incumbent Strom Thurmond. He was reelected to a fourth term in 2020. In the Senate Graham advocates for strong national defense...
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John C. Stennis (category Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate)
zealous supporter of racial segregation. Along with James Eastland, he supported the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948 headed by Strom Thurmond, and signed the Southern...
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Richard Russell Jr. (category Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate)
a closed door meeting for the Senate Armed Services Committee for August 31, 1961, at the time of Senator Strom Thurmond requesting the committee vote...
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criminal code since the early 1900s. It was sponsored by Strom Thurmond (R-SC) in the Senate and by Hamilton Fish IV (R-NY) in the House, and was eventually...
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Ralph Yarborough (category University of Texas School of Law alumni)
the Civil Rights Act, Yarborough joked to Thurmond, "Come on in, Strom, and help us get a quorum." Thurmond responded, "If I can keep you out, you won’t...
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Orrin Hatch (category Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate)
latter distinction, Hatch was surpassed in length of service by fellow senators Ted Stevens and Strom Thurmond, who joined the Republican Party in 1964, and...
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state. Thirdly, the voters two years prior in the 1996 Senate election had rewarded Strom Thurmond for his long service to the state and it was unlikely...
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John Tower (category Accidental deaths in Georgia (U.S. state))
Senate until Strom Thurmond switched parties in 1964. A political conservative earlier in his career, Tower staunchly opposed the Civil Rights Act of...
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Rita Derrick Hayes (section Political career)
round. Her nomination for the Geneva position was supported by U.S. Senators Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings. MCCRADY, ALLSTON (September 2016). "A Southern...
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Lisa Murkowski (category Recipients of the Order of the Falcon)
Scott McAdams in the general election. She is the second U.S. senator (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to be elected by write-in vote. She was elected to...
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South Carolina Republican Party (redirect from Republican Party of South Carolina)
2016-12-29. "U.S. Senate: Strom Thurmond: A Featured Biography". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-25. Brisendine, J. (2011). Strom Thurmond. Our States:...
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Burnet R. Maybank (category United States Navy personnel of World War I)
powerful ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His unexpected death on September 1, 1954, from a heart attack, led to Strom Thurmond being elected...
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Southern Caucus (category United States Senate)
backing of Johnson for President is a reason given for the lack of an organized filibuster beyond Strom Thurmond's one person filibuster of the Civil...
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Floyd Spence (category Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives)
district to Democrat Albert W. Watson, who had the support of powerful senator Strom Thurmond. Watson shifted to the Republican Party in 1965 and ran unsuccessfully...
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J. Fred Buzhardt (category University of South Carolina School of Law alumni)
Previously he had served as General Counsel of the Department of Defense and as a legislative aide to Senator Strom Thurmond. Buzhardt was born in Greenwood, South...
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Quentin Burdick (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota)
the time of his death, he was the third longest-serving senator (after Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd) among current members of the Senate. Quentin Burdick...
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Paula Hawkins (politician) (category Latter Day Saints from Georgia (U.S. state))
during her years in Washington. Senator Strom Thurmond, in his capacity as President pro tempore, gave her the use of a room in the Capitol building for a...
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Joe Wilson (American politician) (redirect from Joe Wilson (US politician))
as an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond and to his district's congressman, Floyd Spence. In 1981 and 1982, during the first term of the Reagan administration...
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Fritz Hollings (category Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives)
Democrat-turned-Republican Senator Strom Thurmond for 36 years, making them the longest-serving duo in U.S. Senate history. At the time of his death, he was the oldest...
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