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A 3 page research paper that outlines the political career of Senator Strom Thurmond. The writer argue that Thurmond will be remembered in American politics primarily due to his longevity, as he holds the record for the longest serving senator in US history. He was still an active member of the Senate for the State of South Carolina with 48 years of service at the age 100. He will also be remembered as a staunch segregationist who fought extensively against the passage of Civil Rights legislation. Eventually, however, Thurmond acquiesced to the new political reality and concentrated his efforts on expanding influence of the Republican party in the South, which proved to be a task at which he was imminently successful. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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US history. He was still an active member of the Senate for the State of South Carolina with 48 years of service at the age 100 (Rourke, 2004). He will
also be remembered as a staunch segregationist who fought extensively against the passage of Civil Rights legislation. Eventually, however, Thurmond acquiesced to the new political reality and concentrated his efforts
on expanding influence of the Republican party in the South, which proved to be a task at which he was imminently successful. Thurmonds long public service career began
in 1933 when he as elected to the South Carolina Senate, where he served until he was elected to the Eleventh Circuit judgeship (Rourke, 2004). When the US entered World
War II, Thurmond obtained a special dispensation, due to his age, to serve in the military. During his tour of service, Thurmond participated in the Normandy invasion on assignment with
the 82nd Airborne Division (Rourke, 2004). In 1946, he was elected as South Carolinas governor, which is a post he held from 1947 to 1951. Thurmond was already
52 years old when he was elected to the Senate s a write-in candidate in 1954 (Haffenrefer and Karl, 2001). He rose in the ranks of South Carolina politics
as a loyal New Deal Democrat, but he led a walkout of the 1948 Democratic convention over the issue of civil rights. Soon afterward, Thurmond ran against President Harry Truman
as a third party candidate, with his support of Southern segregationist policies as his principal campaign focus (Haffenrefer and Karl, 2001). Thurmond ran as the presidential candidate for the States
Rights Democratic Party (popularly known as the Dixiecrats) and won four Southern states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina) and thirty-nine electoral votes (Rourke, 2004). He was unsuccessful in
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