A biography of the late Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. ... James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of John William and Eleanor Gertrude (Strom) Thurmond. Educated in the Edgefield County public schools, he graduated from Clemson College (now Clemson University) in...
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Strom Thurmond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the Unite...
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major general, United States Army Reserve; Governor of South Carolina 1947-1951; unsuccessful States Rights candidate for President of the United States in 1948; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic ... Cohodas, Nadine. Strom Thurmond & The Politics of Southern Change. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1994.
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An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper. ... Monday's statement from the Thurmond family reads: "As J. Strom Thurmond has passed away and cannot speak for himself,
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Thurmond, Strom (James Strom Thurmond) (thûr'mund) [key], 1902–2003, U.S. senator from South Carolina (1954–2003), b. Edgefield, S.C. He read law while teaching (1923–29) in South Carolina schools and was admitted to the bar in 1930. Thurmond was elected (1933) a state senator and became (1938) a circuit...
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Here is an editorial from the Irish Times which was printed during the Clinton Impeachment hearings, regarding two famous Jim Crowe racists in the U.S. Government, Strom Thurmond and William Rehnquist.
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Strom Thurmond turned 99 last month, and they gave him a cake. There were plenty of nice speeches from his fellow senators, and the newspaper reports were respectful, even affectionate. Perhaps those reporters are young.
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South Carolina Governors - James Strom Thurmond ... SC Governors – James Strom Thurmond, 1947-1951 ... The Strom Thurmond Federal Building in Columbia, SC and Strom Thurmond High School in Edgefield County, SC were both named for Thurmond;
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In all the words spent on Strom Thurmond's life and times since his death last week, I have seen no acknowledgment of the most interesting of his sundry racial legacies. She is Essie Mae Washington Williams, a widowed former school teacher in her 70s, livi ... Photograph of Strom Thurmond by Win MacNamee/Reuters.
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