Strom Thurmond scrapbooks series, 1923-1982.

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Strom Thurmond scrapbooks series, 1923-1982.

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Microfilmed scrapbooks (except for Scrapbooks subseries) assembled by the Thurmond's office staff. Consists of newspaper clippings, examples of office stationery and programs of events at which Thurmond spoke or attended. Chronicles his career, especially his campaigns for governor and senator, the 1948 States' Rights campaign, his switch to the Republican Party, in 1964 and his work for the Goldwater presidential campaign and his participation in republican Albert Watson's unsuccessful South Carolina gubernatorial campaign in 1970.

25 microfilm reels.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7157657

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

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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...