Strom Thurmond

✶December 5, 1902

†June 26, 2003

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James Strom Thurmond Sr. was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Before his 47 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of South Carolina from 1947 to 1951. Thurmond was a member of the Democratic Party in the Senate until 1964 when he joined the Republican Party. He also ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate, receiving over a million votes and winning four states.

American politician (1902–2003)

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Biography from the article Strom Thurmond on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.