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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Strom Thurmond, and Carroll "Tumpy" Campbell III, son of the late Gov. Carroll Campbell.
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.
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.
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.
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He beat a Democrat less than half his age who was born the year Thurmond won election as a write-in candidate in 1954.
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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.
"We prefer to work with a small business if we can, " says Ms. Thurmond, adding that the church has about 1, 000 regular attendees on Sundays.
Five players on the court that day are now in the Hall of Fame: Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry, Billy Cunningham, Nate Thurmond and Hal Greer.
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Trent Lott to walk the plank (and lose his job as majority leader) after Lott spoke glowingly of Strom Thurmond's segregationist campaign for president in 1948.
Thurmond, already the oldest man ever to serve as senator, he now surpasses the length of service record set by Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden January 2, 1969.
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Whispers began among whites when Strom Thurmond, by then South Carolina's governor, arranged for his daughter to go to the all-black South Carolina State College in the 1940s.
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