Longest-serving senator in U.S. history, Strom Thurmond, dies
Friday, June 27, 2003
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He was 100 and the longest-serving senator in history.
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