44 years and 5 months (as of July, 2000) and age is 97 years and 7 months (as of July, 2000)
Years of Service: 1954-1956; 1956- Party: Republican
THURMOND, James Strom, a Senator from
South Carolina; born in Edgefield, S.C., December 5, 1902; attended the public
schools; graduated, Clemson College 1923; taught in South Carolina high schools
1923-1929; Edgefield County superintendent of education 1929-1933; studied law
and was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1930; city and county attorney
1930-1938; member, State senate 1933-1938; circuit judge 1938-1946; served in
the United States Army 1942-1946, in Europe and in the Pacific; major general,
United States Army Reserve; Governor of South Carolina 1947-1951; unsuccessful
States Rights candidate for President of the United States in 1948; unsuccessful
candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1950;
practiced law in Aiken, S.C., 1951-1955; appointed as a Democrat to the United
States Senate to complete the term of Charles E. Daniel, who resigned, and
served from December 24, 1954, to January 3, 1955; had been previously elected
as a write-in candidate in November 1954 for the term commencing January 3, 1955
and ending January 3, 1961, but due to a promise made to the voters in the 1954
election, he resigned as of April 4, 1956; again elected as a Democrat in
November 1956 to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation and served from
November 7, 1956 to January 3, 1961; reelected in 1960, 1966, 1972, 1978, 1984,
1990, and again in 1996 for the term ending January 3, 2003; changed from the
Democratic to the Republican Party September 16, 1964; President pro tempore
of the Senate Ninety-seventh to Ninety-eighth Congresses, and again One Hundred
Fourth Congress through the One Hundred Sixth Congress; chairman, Committee on
the Judiciary (Ninety-seventh through Ninety-ninth Congresses); Committee on
Armed Services (One Hundred Fourth and One Hundred Fifth Congresses).
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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