South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond Signed Envelope COA
"South Carolina Senator" Strom Thurmond Signed Envelope. This item is authenticated by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity. (December 5, 1902 - June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served for 48 years as a. He ran for president in. Candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39.
Thurmond represented South Carolina in the. From 1954 until 2003, at first as a. And, after 1964, as a. A magnet for controversy during his nearly half-century Senate career, Thurmond switched parties because of his support for the conservatism of the Republican presidential candidate Senator.
In the months before switching, he had been critical of the Democratic Administration for... Enactment of the Civil Rights Law", while Goldwater "boasted of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act, and made it part of his platform. Thurmond left office as the only member of either chamber of. To reach the age of 100 while still in office, and as the oldest-serving and. Although he was later surpassed in the latter by.
Thurmond holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress to serve exclusively in the Senate. He is also the longest-serving Republican member of Congress in U. At 14 years, he was also the longest-serving. Dean of the United States Senate. Civil Rights Act of 1957.
He conducted the longest speaking. Ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop. In the 1960s, he opposed the. Civil rights legislation of 1964. And enforce the constitutional rights of African-American citizens, including basic. He insisted he was not a. But was opposed to excessive federal authority, which he attributed to. Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of. He never fully renounced his earlier positions. Six months after Thurmond died. At the age of 100. Although Thurmond never publicly acknowledged Essie Mae Washington, he paid for her education at a.