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Thurmond, J(ames) Strom
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| US senator, born in Edgefield, South Carolina, USA. Educated at Clemson University, he was a teacher and superintendent of education before turning to the law, becoming a judge of the state's circuit court (1938–42). After serving with the US army in World War 2, he became Democratic Governor of South Carolina (1947–51). Although relatively progressive as a governor, he was opposed to the 1948 Democratic civil rights programme, and led the walkout of the Southern Democrats at the 1948 convention. Originally appointed a Democrat to the US Senate in 1954, he was elected on his own in 1956; switching to the Republican Party in 1964, he continued to be re-elected, and became a prominent force in the emergence of a conservative Republican Party in the South. He was appointed chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 105th Congress (1997). He did not contest a Senate seat in 2002. |
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