Storm Thurmond: Electoral History of Strom Thurmond, United States Senate, Dixiecrat, List Members the Congress by Longevity Service

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrat) candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond later represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to April 1956 and November 1956 to January 2003, at first as a Democrat and after 1964 as a Republican, switching parties as the conservative base shifted. He left office at age 100 as the oldest-serving and longest-serving senator in U.S. history (although he was later surpassed in the latter by Robert Byrd).