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Up for auction the "South Carolina Senator" Strom Thurmond 8x10Color Photo.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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James Strom Thurmond Sr.
(December 5, 1902 ? June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served for 48 years as a
United States Senator
from
South Carolina
. He ran for president in
1948
as the
States Rights Democratic Party
candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39
electoral votes
. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the
United States Senate
from 1954 until 2003, at first as a
Southern Democrat
and, after 1964, as a
Republican
. 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
Barry Goldwater
. 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
Congress
to reach the age of 100 while still in office, and as the oldest-serving and
longest-serving senator in U.S. history
(although he was later surpassed in the latter by
Robert Byrd
and
Daniel Inouye
). 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.S. history. At 14 years, he was also the longest-serving
Dean of the United States Senate
in U.S. history. In opposition to the
Civil Rights Act of 1957
, he conducted the longest speaking
filibuster
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
1965
to end
segregation
and enforce the constitutional rights of African-American citizens, including basic
suffrage
. Despite being a pro-segregation
Dixiecrat
, he insisted he was not a
racist
, but was opposed to excessive federal authority, which he attributed to
Communist
agitators. Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of
states' rights
in the context of
Southern
society at the time. He never fully renounced his earlier positions. Six months after Thurmond died
at the age of 100
in 2003, his
mixed-race
, then 78-year-old daughter
Essie Mae Washington-Williams
(1925?2013) revealed he was her father. Her mother Carrie Butler (1909?1948) had been working as his family's maid, and was either 15 or 16 years old when a 22-year-old Thurmond impregnated her in early 1925. Although Thurmond never publicly acknowledged Essie Mae Washington, he paid for her education at a
historically black college
and passed other money to her for some time. She said she kept silent out of respect for her father and denied the two had agreed she would not reveal her connection to Thurmond. His children by his marriage eventually acknowledged her. Her name has since been added as one of his children to his memorial at the state capitol.