Strom Thurmond became a father for the first time at age 68, when his 22-year-old wife Nancy Moore gave birth to the first of his four children. (His first wife, Jean, died in 1960.) ...

WASHINGTON - So how old is Sen. Strom Thurmond? So old that the South Carolina Republican tops the 58-year-old average age of the current crop of senators by 40 years. So old that the Army thought ...

Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina turns one century old today. He is the oldest and longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate, a man who had but two goals in recent years: live to be 100 and ...

On this day in 2002, Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), the oldest senator in Senate history, turned 100 years old, a month before retiring. In November 1954, Thurmond, a former South Carolina governor ...

WASHINGTON – The roll was still being called on a late afternoon vote last week when 98-year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond, who had arrived early as usual, decided to take his leave from the Senate ...

When Strom Thurmond died at age 100 last June, the South Carolinian was recalled as the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate, a once-fiery opponent to civil rights laws, a father of four. Now … ...

President Biden on Monday claimed to have "literally" convinced South Carolina Democrat-turned-Republican Senator Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act — when he was just 21 years old ...

Ninety-eight-year-old Strom Thurmond says he's feeling "excellent." His health is watched daily by both Republicans and Democrats. If Thurmond, the longtime Republican senator, were to resign or ...

And even back in the old days when we had real segregationists like Eastland and Thurmond and all those guys,” he said, referring to former segregationist senators James Eastland (D-Miss.) and ...

Three months after Sen. Cory Booker broke his chamber's record for the longest speech ever, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ...