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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 … ...

Just watching Strom Thurmond at age 98 is instructive, for there is so little of consequence to see. ... A Fondness for Old Stories On his good days, Thurmond can still manage a strong handshake.

Strom Thurmond at 100 On Dec. 5, 2002, ... Thurmond -- nearly half as old as the Senate itself -- looked out over a chamber where he had cast more than 16,000 votes.

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 ...

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 ...