Thurmond joined the Republican Party in the 1960s and ultimately turned away from his segregationist past.
Thurmond says he plans to finish out this term, taking him to January 2003.
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Thurmond ran for president as a Dixiecrat in 1948 with a platform of maintaining segregation.
Strom Thurmond, and Carroll "Tumpy" Campbell III, son of the late Gov. Carroll Campbell.
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott.
ECONOMIST: He's still not wanted in Richmond, 138 years later
Before Mr Thurmond's apostasy, the Republicans were little more than an esoteric cult in the South.
Her mother, Carrie Butler, worked as a maid at the Thurmond family home in Edgefield, South Carolina.
Thurmond would have to serve another full term after this and live to 106 to beat that.
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The longest talking filibuster was recorded by the late Senator Strom Thurmond - just over 24 hours.
The departure from the Senate of Strom Thurmond (99) and Jesse Helms (80) may have been predictable.
Look, I don't agree with any of his previous statements about Strom Thurmond or anything like that.
In 2003, then-Georgia Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond, a Democrat, launched Georgia Works, a variation of the Oregon plan.
Calhoun, who contrived the rationale nullification for Southern secession, and Strom Thurmond, who led the South out of the Democratic Party.
Chairman Strom Thurmond also demanded the president consult Congress before approving any deployment.
The Strom Thurmond retirement has kind of overshadowed the retirement of Phil Gramm, of Jesse Helms, of Fred Thompson.
The former six-term senator has a deft touch with moderate and conservative counterparts: in 2008, he eulogized Strom Thurmond.
At the time of Washington-Williams' birth, Butler was 16 and Thurmond was 22, unmarried and living in his parents' home.
Byrd, of West Virginia, presided over the chamber as the new Senate president pro tempore, replacing Strom Thurmond, R-South Carolina.
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Daschle, in turn, moved to appoint Byrd the new Senate president pro tempore, replacing 98-year-old Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Trent Lott (R-MS), whose fond recollections of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential candidacy provoked a wide outcry and ultimately cost Lott his post.
In the U.S. Senate, where seniority is rewarded and revered, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond didn't retire until age 100 in 2002.
Thurmond was quite a liberal state governor: he denounced lynching, and called for more money to be spent on black schools.
An attorney for the former senator's family confirmed in 2003 that Thurmond fathered a child with a teenage black housekeeper in 1925.
The headliners are Paul Thurmond, the 34-year-old son of the late Sen.
You can even argue that Mr Thurmond brought ideology to American politics.
Thurmond plans on marking the milestone Sunday with a speech in Johnston, South Carolina, in Edgefield County, where he was born in 1902.
CNN: AllPolitics - Strom Thurmond Becomes Longest-Serving US Senator
He beat a Democrat less than half his age who was born the year Thurmond won election as a write-in candidate in 1954.
CNN: AllPolitics - Strom Thurmond Becomes Longest-Serving US Senator
Washington-Williams kept her father's identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades, died in June 2003 at age 100.
He said that he was tempted to go another 12 hours and try to break Thurmond's record, but he needed to use the bathroom.
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