Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1947 - 2011

ArchivalResource

Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1947 - 2011

1947-2011

This series consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, and reference material referred to or sent by the Committee on Armed Services.

543 linear feet, 8 linear inches

eng, Latn

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66v1b4m (person)

James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American military officer and politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States' rights platform supporting racial segregation. He received 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes, failing to defeat Harry Truman. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern De...