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Thurmond, Strom (1902–)

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Sep 2003 Ratio of Strom Thurmond's age at his death in June to the average U.S. life expectancy in the year he was born: 2:1
Source:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)

May 2001Years before being nominated as South Carolina's U.S. attorney in January that Strom Thurmond's son graduated law school: 3
Source:

University of South Carolina Law School (Columbia)

Jan 2001Days after Al Gore's birth in 1948 that the States' Rights Party nominated Senator Strom Thurmond for president: 108
Source:

Gore 2000 (Nashville, Tenn.)/Office of Senator Strom Thurmond (Washington)

Jun 1999Number of pups that Bob Dole's dog Leader has sired with Strom Thurmond's dog Chelsea Marie: 8
Source:

Office of Senator Strom Thurmond (Washington)

June 27, 2003 Strom Thurmond finally died.
Source:

Associated Press

December 11, 2001Senator Strom Thurmond turned 99; he told his colleagues that he loved them. “I appreciate every one of you, especially you ladies. You are good-looking.”
October 9, 2001 Strom Thurmond collapsed on the floor of the Senate but refused to die.
September 4, 2001Senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina told a newspaper that Senator Strom Thurmond, his 98-year-old colleague, is no longer “mentally keen” but stays in the Senate because “the poor fellow doesn't have any place to go.” Hollings also remarked that the Senate makes an excellent nursing home.
January 9, 2001Hillary Rodham Clinton was sworn in as the junior senator from New York; Strom Thurmond, the oldest senator in history, rose up and asked, “Can I hug you?” and then did.

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