James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the presidency of the United States in 1948 under the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party banner. He garnered 39 electoral votes in that race, making him the first third party presidential candidate to receive electoral votes since Robert LaFollette in 1924. Wikipedia
An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper. www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/15/thurmond..paternity/index.html
The article is also posted at http://www.thoughtcrimes.org/ . Strom's Secret BY KEN CUMMINS Stories linking Sen. Strom Thurmond with Essie Washington have been woven into the fabric of Southern political folklore. www.blackcommentator.com/21_re_print.html
Thurmond's body is tentatively scheduled tolie in state at the South Carolina State House on Sunday and Monday. www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/26/thurmond.obit/
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Strom Thurmond. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond
FormerSouth Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond ( search ), the nation's longest-serving senator and former "Dixiecrat" ( search )candidate for the presidency, diedThursday in Edgefield, S.C. He was 100. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90549,00.html
