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- Strom Thurmond is 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.
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. - Actor
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Songwriter ("Send Me the Pillow You Dream On"), composer, singer, guitarist and bassist, he was a winner on the Major Bowes Amateur program, and toured with the Bowes units. He had his own group in radio and television in North Carolina and Georgia, and in films. He also worked as a disk jockey on an Augusta, Georgia radio station. Joining ASCAP in 1951, his other song compositions include "Look In the Looking Glass", "Journey's End", "Days Are Long, Nights Are Lonely", "Juke Box Gal" and "Savannah River Rag".