    Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), June 1997.
    [Pages 261-262]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

        STROM THURMOND, Republican, of Aiken, SC; attorney and educator;
    committees: chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee; ranking member,
    Judiciary; senior member, Veterans' Affairs. Family: born December 5,
    1902, in Edgefield, SC; son of John William and Eleanor Gertrude (Strom)
    Thurmond; married Jean Crouch, 1947 (deceased January 6, 1960); married
    Nancy Moore, 1968; four children: Nancy Moore (deceased April 14, 1993),
    James Strom II, Juliana Gertrude, and Paul Reynolds. Education: 1923
    graduate of Clemson University; studied law at night under his father,
    admitted to South Carolina bar, 1930, and admitted to practice in all
    federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Professional career:
    teacher and athletic coach (1923-29), county superintendent of education
    (1929-33), city attorney and county attorney (1930-38), State Senator
    (1933-38), circuit judge (1938-46), Governor of South Carolina (1947-
    51), serving as chairman of Southern Governors Conference (1950);
    practiced law in Edgefield, SC (1930-38) and in Aiken, SC (1951-55);
    adjunct professor of political science at Clemson University and
    distinguished lecturer at the Strom Thurmond Institute; member,
    President's Commission on Organized Crime and Commission on the
    Bicentennial of the Constitution. Military service: Reserve officer for
    36 years; while serving as judge, volunteered for active duty in World
    War II the day war was declared against Germany; served with
    Headquarters First Army (1942-46), American, European, and Pacific
    theaters; participated in Normandy invasion with 82nd Airborne Division
    and landed on D-day; awarded 5 battle stars and 18 decorations, medals,
    and awards, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze
    Star Medal with ``V'', Purple Heart, Belgian Order of the Crown, and
    French Croix de Guerre; major general, U.S. Army Reserves. Honors and
    awards: past national president of Reserve Officers Association (ROA) of
    the United States (1954-55); Clemson University Alumni Association
    Distinguished Service Award (1961), Clemson Medallion (1981) and Clemson
    University Athletic Hall of Fame (1983); Disabled American Veterans
    Outstanding and Unselfish Service Awards (1964 and 1981); Military Order
    of World Wars Distinguished Service Award (1964); Order of AHEPA
    Dedicated Public Service Award (1968); WIS Radio-TV (Columbia, SC)
    ``South Carolinian of the Year'' (1968); 33rd degree Mason (1969); first
    president of ROA to receive ``Minuteman of the Year Award'' (1971);
    Noncommissioned Officers Association L. Mendel Rivers Award for
    Legislative Action (1971); Congressional Medal of Honor Society National
    Patriots Award (1974); The Retired Officers Association Distinguished
    Service Award (1974); Association of U.S. Army Distinguished Service
    Citation (1974); American Legion Distinguished Public Service Award
    (1975); Medal of the Knesset, Israel (1982); Distinguished Service Medal
    (1984); Military Order of the Purple Heart Congressional Award (1976);
    AMVETS Silver Helmet Congressional Award (1977); Veterans of Foreign
    Wars Dwight D. Eisenhower Service Award (1977) and Congressional Award
    (1985); Touchdown Club of Washington, DC, ``Mr. Sam'' Award for
    contributions to sports (1978); South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association
    Service Award (1980); Navy League of U.S. Meritorious Service Citation
    (1980); American Judges Association Distinguished Service Citation
    (1981); South Carolina Hall of Fame (1982); Audie Murphy Patriotism
    Award (1982); National Guard Association of United States, Harry S.
    Truman Distinguished Service Award (1982); New York Board of Trade
    ``Textile Man of the Year'' (1984); Napoleon Hill Gold Medal
    Humanitarian Achievement Award (1985); Order of the Palmetto Award;
    Presidential Citizens Medal by President Ronald Reagan, 1989;
    Noncommissioned Officers Association Lifetime Legislative Achievement
    Award, 1990; Adjutants General Association of the United States, George
    Washington Freedom Award, 1991; U.S. Marshals Service America's Star
    Award, 1991; ROA; Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George
    Bush, 1992; over 20 honorary degrees; numerous Watchdog of the Treasury
    awards and Guardian of Small Business awards. International awards:
    Order of Distinguished Diplomatic Service Merit Medal, South Korea
    (1974); Order of Kim Khanh Award, Republic of Vietnam (1975); Grand
    Cross in the Order of Orange-Nassau, the Netherlands (1982); numerous
    other distinctions; U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame Medal (1994); Senior
    Army Reserve Commanders Association Hall of Fame Medal (1995). Named in
    his honor: Thurmond Hall at Winthrop College, SC (1939); Strom Thurmond
    High School, Edgefield County, SC (1961); Strom Thurmond Student Center,
    Charleston Southern University at Charleston, SC (1972); Strom Thurmond
    Federal Building, Columbia, SC (1975); The Strom Thurmond Institute of
    Government and Public Affairs at The Strom Thurmond Center for
    Excellence in Government and Public Service at Clemson University,
    Clemson, SC (1981); Strom Thurmond Chairs and Scholarships (1981), and
    Strom Thurmond Auditorium (1982) at University of South Carolina School
    of Law, Columbia, SC; life-sized statue erected on Edgefield town square
    by people of Edgefield County, SC (1984), and on streets in several
    South Carolina cities; Strom Thurmond Lake, Dam and Highway, Clarks
    Hill, SC, 1987; Strom Thurmond Mall, Columbia, SC, 1988; has endowed 52
    scholarships at 45 colleges and universities, and established the Strom

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    Thurmond Foundation, which assists in educating 80 to 100 needy, worthy
    students annually; Strom Thurmond Soldier Service Center, Fort Jackson,
    Columbia, SC, 1991; Strom Thurmond Room, U.S. Capitol, 1991; Strom
    Thurmond Highway (Interstate 20 from the Georgia Line to Florence, SC),
    1992; Strom Thurmond Biomedical Research Center, Medical University of
    South Carolina, Charleston, SC (1993); Strom Thurmond National Guard
    Armory, Edgefield, SC (1994). Memberships and affiliations: Baptist;
    Shriner; South Carolina and American bar associations; numerous defense,
    veterans, civic, fraternal, and farm organizations. Political
    activities: States Rights Democratic candidate for president of the
    United States (1948), carrying four states and receiving 39 electoral
    votes; delegate to six Democratic national conventions (chairman of
    South Carolina delegation and national committeeman, 1948); switched
    from Democratic to Republican Party (September 16, 1964); delegate to
    five Republican national conventions (chairman of South Carolina
    delegation, 1984); elected to the U.S. Senate, November 2, 1954, as a
    write-in candidate (first person in U.S. history elected to a major
    office in this manner) for term ending January 3, 1961; resigned as U.S.
    Senator April 4, 1956, to place the office in a primary, pursuant to a
    promise made to the people during the 1954 campaign; renominated and
    reelected to the Senate in 1956, resuming duties on November 7, 1956;
    reelected for each succeeding term; served as president pro tempore of
    the U.S. Senate, 1981-87, and currently since 1995.

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