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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: January 2011
Caption: The State House , Strom Thurmond Monument on south lawn
Additional Description: * Governor of South Carolina (1947–1951) * States' Rights Democratic presidential candidate (1948) * Eight-term senator from South Carolina (December 1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – January 2003) * Democrat (1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – September 1964) * Republican (September 1964 – January 2003) * President pro tempore (1981–1987; 1995 – January 3, 2001; January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001) * Set record for the longest one-man Congressional filibuster (1957) * Set record for oldest serving member at 94 years (1997) * Set the then-record for longest cumulative tenure in the Senate at 43 years (1997), increasing to 47 years, 6 months at his retirement in January 2003, surpassed by Robert Byrd in July 2006 * Became the only senator ever to serve at the age of 100
Submitted: January 23, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p169686
File Size: 0.166 Megabytes

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