[170] In September, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved 30 of President Carter's nominees, the closest vote being waged against Abner J. Mikva, who the president had nominated for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. While working in education, he studied law at night and passed the bar in 1930. Strom Thurmond, a maverick Dixiecrat-turned-Republican who led the longest single filibuster in U.S. history and served in the U.S. Senate nearly 50 years, died late Thursday at the age of 100. [74] During the campaign, Thurmond told reporters that he believed Barry Goldwater could carry South Carolina and other southern states. In 1966, former governor Ernest "Fritz" Hollings won South Carolina's other Senate seat in a special election. [110], Thurmond decried the Supreme Court opinion in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education (1969), which ordered the immediate desegregation of schools in the American South. Her name has been added to those of his other children on a monument to Thurmond installed at the statehouse grounds. [302] Thirteen years later in 1960, Crouch died of a brain tumor at age 33; they had no children. [51], In January 1959, the Senate held a debate over changing the rules to curb filibusters, Thurmond expressed the view that the Senate return to the rule prior to 1917, when there were no regulations on the time for debate. [54] In the presidential election, he received 14 electoral votes for vice president (as Harry Byrd Sr.'s running mate). [67] Thurmond expressed the view that a conspiracy would be found by investigators to have been responsible for JFK's death. [99] Thurmond displayed sex magazines, which he called "obscene, foul, putrid, filthy and repulsive", to validate his charges that Supreme Court rulings overturning obscenity convictions had led to a large wave of hardcore pornography material. [341], "Senator Thurmond" redirects here. Byrd died peacefully in 2010, aged 92, still in office. "[273] Worley stated that the issue of age should be dealt with in the primary as opposed to the general election, encouraging Thurmond to be dropped as the seat's continuous nominee. [275] In the following month, when astronaut and fellow Senator John Glenn was to embark on the Discovery at age 77, Thurmond, who was his senior by 19 years, reportedly sent him a message saying; "I want to go too. [129] On April 11, 1971, Thurmond called for the exoneration of William Calley following his conviction of participating in the My Lai Massacre, stating that the "victims at Mylai were casualties to the brutality of war" and Calley had acted off of order. He died in 2003; he was 100 years . Constitution. Cunningham said that Thurmond had a "bad track record" and noted his past comments on race, saying that he would not be crushed like Thurmond's past opponents and was getting much encouragement in his bid to unseat him. Roberts stated that Thurmond "was in the category of his own" when it came to politicians and sexual harassment. [64] Along with Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, Thurmond delayed the Nitze nomination. After Tower's nomination was rejected by the Senate, Thurmond asked, "What does it say when the leader of the free world can't get a Cabinet member confirmed? [188] Following the presidential election, Thurmond and North Carolina senator Jesse Helms sponsored a Senate amendment to a Department of Justice appropriations bill denying the department the power to participate in busing, due to objections over federal involvement, but, although passed by Congress, was vetoed by a lame duck Carter. [291], After Washington-Williams came forward, the Thurmond family attorney acknowledged her parentage. [203], Thurmond and Helms urged President Reagan to curb textile imports, with Thurmond saying later that year that the first four months of 1981 had seen a 16 percent increase in textile imports "over a similar period in 1980. "[158] Speaking on the Panama Canal neutrality treaty, Thurmond said it was "the big giveaway of the century. CELEBRATES ITS SWEEP TO POWER; CLINTON VOWS TO FIND COMMON GROUND", "Thurmond's Robust Legend Shields Him at 93", "South Carolina's Thurmond Still Running At 93", "Senate Honors Thurmond, 95, for Casting His 15,000th Vote", "Statement on Signing the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999", "Bill Would Bar Health Referral On Wine Label", "Senate Clears 2 Pearl Harbor 'Scapegoats', "National News Briefs; Thurmond Recommends Son for U.S. Attorney", "Senate Extends Restrictions on Advertising", "Sen. 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Thurmond's influence in national politics allowed him to have correspondence with staffers from the Nixon administration which gave him "a unique advantage in announcing federal grants and bird-dogging federal projects of particular interest to black voters. He was Strom Thurmond, son of a powerful lawyer in Edgefield, S.C. She was Carrie Butler, a part-time maid in the Thurmond house. "[165] [140] In May 1974, Thurmond, along with William L. Scott and James B. Allen agreed with Senator Carl T. Curtis on the equation of resignation with mob rule and the group declined defending Nixon's conduct. Several senators who voted against you have told me they would vote for you if they had it to do again. He was 100 years old. [256] In August, after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted evenly on the nomination of William C. Lucas for Assist Attorney General for Civil Rights and thereby terminated the nomination that required a majority to proceed to the entirety of the chamber, Thurmond noted the different forms of segregation in the North and South and added that "black people didn't have the chance in either place that they should have had. James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of John William Thurmond and Eleanor Gertrude Strom. Thurmond's 100th birthday was celebrated on December 5, 2002. In September, he was admitted to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for tests. Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, where he also died. "[255], In July 1989, when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill by Democrat Dennis DeConcini that imposed a ban of three years on sales of several domestic assault weapons, it rejected an amendment by Thurmond that would have substituted the DeConcini bill with the Bush administration's anti-crime package, which did not include a ban on rifles produced in the United States. [314], Thurmond died of heart failure in his sleep at 9:45p.m. on June 26, 2003, at a hospital in his hometown of Edgefield, South Carolina. [285], In August 1999, Thurmond underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate. [39] On May 1, Thurmond's Senate campaign headquarters opened in Columbia, South Carolina with Ernest Craig serving as campaign leader and George McNabb in charge of public relations, both were on leave from their state positions in the governor's office. 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[48] Other Southern senators, who had agreed as part of a compromise not to filibuster this bill, were upset with Thurmond because they thought his defiance made them look incompetent to their constituents. He was easily defeated but did win the states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, and their combined 39 electoral votes. At age 68 in 1971, Thurmond fathered the first of four children with Nancy, who was then 25. In his 1996 re-election campaign, Thurmond received primary opposition from Harold G. Worley and Charlie Thompson, and the question of age appeared again, given that he was 93 years old at the time. Two years later, he hired her to work in his Senate office. [224], Running for a sixth full term in 1984,[225] Thurmond faced his first primary challenge in 20 years, from retired CIA agent Robert Cunningham, and won the Republican nomination on June 12, 1984. [181] After Connally lost the South Carolina primary to Reagan, he thanked Thurmond and his wife for doing more to support his campaign in the state than anyone else. [311] Thurmond's colleague, Senator Patty Murray, stated that in early 1994, Thurmond, then 91, tried to fondle her breast in an elevator. [291] She kept silent out of respect for her father[292] and denied the two had agreed she would not reveal her connection to him. [334][335][272] Thurmond opened his final campaign in a speech at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, proclaiming that he would not give up on "our mission to right the 40-year wrongs of liberalism" and that South Carolinians knew he did not like "unfinished business. Thurmond remarked that the issue was the only one expressed by members of the press,[272] even as polls showed "that the vast majority of South Carolinians believe it is far past time for him to retire. [253] The Thurmond endorsement served to change the Dole campaign's initial plans of skipping the South Carolina primary, where Vice President Bush defeated Dole. [323], In 1997, future Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called Thurmond "somebody I have heard about, observed and admired all of my life. "[241], In September 1985, Thurmond was one of eight members of a delegation that met with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. [100] Thurmond also arranged for the screening of explicit films that Fortas had purportedly legalized to be played before reporters and his own Senate colleagues. Thurmond also predicted that Nixon would carry Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Texas and Tennessee. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was a central figure in the political transformation of the South and one of the longest-serving senators in American history. The White House responded that Ford was too busy to meet with Solzhenitsyn, while later sources indicate Ford declined the meeting at the counsel of his advisors. As governor, as well as in the early part of his Congressional career, he was famously pro-segregation, even saying in a 1948 speech, I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that theres not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches. It was also in 1948 that Thurmond made his one and only run for the presidency, as the candidate of the Dixiecrat party, in protest of Harry Trumans nomination by the Democratic Party, of which he was a member. In the 1960 South Carolina Senate race, Thurmond ran unopposed in the general election; a Republican candidate did not even appear on the ballot. [99] Thurmond asked Fortas if the Supreme Court decision in the Mallory v. United States case was an encouragement of individuals to commit serious crimes such as rape and if he believed in "that kind of justice", an inquiry that shocked even the usually stoic Fortas. After lying in state in the rotunda of the South Carolina State House in Columbia, his body was carried on a caisson to the First Baptist Church for services, at which then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware delivered a eulogy,[315] and later to the family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where he was interred. He took the oath of office again on November 7, 1956, and continued to serve until his retirement on January 3, 2003. Both candidates denounced President Truman during the campaign. Thurmond spokeswoman Genevieve Erny commented, "It's unfortunate that the media continue to portray him as in failing health, especially because the only reason the media is interested is a 50-50 split, and the repercussions that could have. Thurmond grew up as a member of First Baptist Church of Edgefield, S.C., and became a member of First Baptist Church of Columbia during his time as governor of South Carolina from 1947-51. Williams announced this past weekend she was the daughter ofStrom Thurmond and a 16-year-old maid working in his father's home. [82], In 1965, L. Mendel Rivers became chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, commentator Wayne King crediting Thurmond's involvement with Rivers as giving Rivers' district "an even dozen military installations that are said to account for onethird to onehalf of the jobs in the area. [287] On the morning of October 2, 2001, Thurmond was admitted to Walter Reed after fainting at his Senate desk. [75] Though Goldwater lost in a landslide, he won South Carolina with 59% of the vote compared to President Johnson's 41%. [173] In July 1979, after the Carter administration unveiled a proposed governing charter for the FBI, Thurmond stated his support for its enactment, his backing being seen by The New York Times as an indication that the governing charter would face little conservative opposition. While it may have shocked most of the nation that Thurmond, a career politician who had made a name for himself by ardently advocating a segregationist platform between the 1940s and '60s, had a child of mixed race, many who knew the Senator suspected that he had fathered Washington-Williams. [168] In July, as the Senate weighed voting on the nomination of Assistant Attorney General Patricia M. Wald to the United States Court of Appeals in Washington, Thurmond joined Paul Laxalt and Alan Simpson recorded their opposition. [231] Cunningham received less than 6% of the primary vote. [71] Thurmond also suggested that Collins had sought to fault southern leaders for President Kennedy's assassination. In 2011, Public Policy Polling found Thurmond to be the most popular politician in South Carolina, with higher favorability ratings than current lawmakers Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Jim Demint, and Mark Sanford. [42] Thurmond co-wrote the first version of the Southern Manifesto, stating disagreement with the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, that desegregated public schools. We're proud of it. [118] Years later, at a 1977 hearing, Thurmond told Haynsworth, "It's a pity you are not on the Supreme Court today. [79] Thurmond explained his opposition to the Voting Rights Act as being opposed to its authorization of the federal government to determine the processes behind how statewide elections are conducted and insisted he was not against black voter turnout. [232] Purvis, noted to have few differences in ideology with Thurmond, cited the latter's age as reason to retire him from the Senate. [279] In January 2001, Thurmond endorsed his son Strom Thurmond Jr. for federal prosecutor in South Carolina in a recommendation to the Senate. [44] In early 1956, he resigned from the Senate, keeping the promise he made two years earlier. [49][pageneeded] Despite his efforts, the Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 on August 29. HE WAS 23. Electoral history of Strom Thurmond, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (1947-1951), United States Senator from South Carolina (1954-1956, 1956-2003; Democrat until 1964 and Republican after), 1948 States' Rights Democrats presidential nominee and President pro tempore of the United States Senate (1981-1987, 1995-2001 and 2001). This page was last edited on 20 June 2023, at 15:43. [293] Many close friends, staff members, and South Carolina residents had long suspected that Washington-Williams was Thurmond's daughter,[294] as they had noted his interest in her. He was also Governor of his home state South Carolina and a Presidential candidate. [62] In February 1963, Thurmond stated that "the brush curtain around Cuba is a formidable Soviet strategic military base" and estimated between 30,000 and 40,000 Cuban troops were under the leadership of a Soviet general. Charter", "Javits and Kennedy Clash in Vote On Judge Tied to AllWhite Club", "Federal Magistrate Act of 1979 Statement on Signing S. 237 Into Law", "S.C. Ex-Gov. Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy (Kindle ed.). For the South Carolina state senate member (his son), see, 1950 U.S. Senate campaign in South Carolina, Standard accounts of the speech render "Nigra" as ", It has only been repeated once, in 2010, by, In contrast to so-called "silent" filibusters, see, [news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SFOYbPikdlgC&dat=19490601&printsec=frontpage&hl=en State Accepts Camp Croft In Park System (June 1, 1949)]. [109] Nixon carried each of these states with the exception of Texas. Senate. "I did love my father. Though both Byrd and Thurmond had long since moved on from the States Rights' Democratic Party, they were the decided protest ticket of several Southern delegates and unpledged electors, who refused to give their support to Kennedy. President pro tempore of the United States Senate, President pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, EuropeanAfricanMiddle Eastern Campaign Medal, conducted the longest speaking filibuster, United States presidential election, 1948, speaking for a total of 24 hours and 18 minutes, Alexander v. 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"[323] "[78] Following the election, Johnson continued to push through Civil Rights legislation, most notably the Voting Rights Act in 1965, which committed the federal government to enforce voting rights of citizens by the supervision of elections in states with noted record of voter suppression and disenfranchisement. [268] According to Thurmond, he had survived "a little power play" orchestrated by fellow Republicans to continue serving as Chairman. "[133] In June, Thurmond advocated against lifting the trade embargo on the People's Republic of China, stating that its communist regime had engaged in a propaganda effort to weaken support for the embargo. "[107] During the general election campaign, Nixon's running mate Spiro Agnew stated that he did not believe Thurmond was a racist when asked his opinion on the matter,[108] and Thurmond participated in a two-day tour of Georgia during October where he warned that American Independent Party candidate George Wallace would split the vote and give the election to Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey by having the Democratic-majority House of Representatives select him in the event none of the candidates received enough electoral votes to win the presidency outright. Courthouse Lake Strom Thurmond Strom Thurmond High School J. Strom Thurmond Dam v t e Strom Thurmond served in the United States Senate from 1956 to 2003. A statue of Strom Thurmond is located on the southern grounds of the, The Strom Thurmond Institute is located on the campus of. [53] In the 1960 United States presidential election, Thurmond refused to back the Democratic nominee, his senate colleague John F. Kennedy, due to the latter's support for civil rights. Reuters. [282] Thurmond left the Senate in January 2003 as the United States' longest-serving senator, a record later surpassed by Senator Robert Byrd. Johnston defeated Thurmond 186,180 votes to 158,904 votes (54% to 46%) in what would be Thurmond's first and only state electoral defeat. [122], In 1970, African-Americans constituted about 30 percent of South Carolina's population. Thurmond proposed that his fellow senators accept portions of the bill that the Senate had already passed including provisions expanding the number of federal crimes for which the death penalty could apply from 23 to 30 and restrictions on the number of appeals a condemned inmate may file in Federal courts, and the ban on the sale and manufacture of nine types of semiautomatic weapons. [296] Her UDC application was not approved while she was alive. [68] Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency. "[221], In 1984, as the Senate voted on a bill granting federal prosecution to weapon-carrying career robbers and giving 15 years of incarceration to those convicted, Thurmond and Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy sponsored an amendment limiting the bill to third-time federal offenders, which passed 77 to 12. Failure to implement the Thurmond amendment was seen as "a preliminary test of Senate support for extending President Bush's ban on foreign-made assault weapons to domestic makes" and a loss for the National Rifle Association of America which had previously protested banning domestic assault weapons. [141] In August, Newsweek published a list by the White House including Thurmond as one of thirty-six senators that the administration believed would support President Nixon in the event of his impeachment and being brought to trial by the Senate. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Joe Biden refuted Thurmond's argument by mentioning that Senate critics of Lucas were civil rights supporters who had a problem with his lack of qualifications. [328] The Oklahoman wrote that he would anger Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson because he could not be controlled and the key to Thurmond's longevity was his prioritizing of his constituents' concerns being addressed.
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