* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

An early example of her protective nature occurred when Senator Strom Thurmond entered the President's hospital room that day in March, passing the Secret Service detail by claiming he was the President's " close friend ", presumably to acquire media attention.

In his confirmation hearings, Justice Clarence Thomas answered a question from Senator Strom Thurmond, qualifying his willingness to change precedent in this way:

In 2002, after remarks made by Mississippi Senator Trent Lott regarding Senator Strom Thurmond's failed presidential bid, Lee said that Lott was a " card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan.

* August 28 – United States Senator Strom Thurmond ( D-SC ) sets the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill.

James Strom Thurmond ( December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003 ) was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator.

Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration generated controversy because of remarks by Mississippi Senator Trent Lott that were considered as racially insensitive: " When Strom Thurmond ran for president, voted for him.

* Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond by Essie Mae Washington-Williams, William Stadiem: Regan Books ( February 1, 2005 ).

* Strom Thurmond ( 1902 – 2003 ), Governor and United States Senator from South Carolina

* Strom Thurmond, ( 1902 – 2003 ), former US Senator who owned several residences in Aiken.

* Strom Thurmond, U. S. Senator, South Carolina Governor, and 1948 presidential candidate

In 2003 Essie Mae Washington-Williams announced that she was the natural daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond ( which his family confirmed ), born in 1925 when he was 22 and her mother Carrie Butler was 16 and a housekeeper at his parents ' house.

The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond ( D-SC ): " This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason.

He gave his private blessing to U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina to bolt the Democratic Party in 1964 and declare himself a Republican, but Byrnes himself remained a Democrat that year.

In April 1993, Five Points was the site of the accidental death of Senator Strom Thurmond's daughter Nancy Moore Thurmond, who was hit by a drunk driver only feet from the limousine of South Carolina's lieutenant governor at the time, Nick Theodore.

South Carolina Senator J. Strom Thurmond tried to get Gore to sign the Southern Manifesto, Gore refused.

Subsequently, Nicholson, demanded Lott denounce his former segregationist views following a speech he gave at Senator Strom Thurmond's birthday dinner when he promoted the Senator's former Dixiecrat Presidential campaign.

Similarly, former governors H. Guy Hunt of Alabama and Kirk Fordice of Mississippi, as well as Senator Strom Thurmond remained active members and / or gave speeches to the organization.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams ( born October 12, 1925 ) is the oldest child of the late Strom Thurmond, the former Governor of South Carolina and longtime United States Senator.

That year she had published a memoir, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond ( 2005 ), written with William Stadiem.

* Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, Regan Books, 2005.

In 1987, however, Representative Butler Derrick of South Carolina introduced a bill before Congress to rename the lake after Strom Thurmond, the long-time Senator from South Carolina.

* 26-Strom Thurmond, 100, Governor of South Carolina, United States Republican Senator from South Carolina and Presidential candidate ( as a Dixiecrat ).

As Thurmond was constitutionally barred from seeking a second term as governor in 1950, he mounted a Democratic primary challenge against first-term U. S. Senator Olin Johnston.

Thurmond appointed Thomas Moss, an African American, to his staff in 1971, described as the first such appointment by a member of the South Carolinian congressional delegation ( it was incorrectly reported by many sources as the first senatorial appointment of an African American, but Mississippi Senator Pat Harrison had hired clerk-librarian Jesse Nichols in 1937 ).

Thurmond left the Senate in January 2003 as the United States ' longest-serving senator ( a record later surpassed by Senator Byrd ).

In 2004 the state legislature approved the addition of her name to the list of Thurmond children on a monument for Senator Thurmond on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds.

First African American Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels ( R-MI ), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner ( R-AL ), Robert DeLarge ( R-SC ), Josiah Walls ( R-FL ), Jefferson Long ( R-GA ), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott ( R-SC )

On February 25, 2008, Senator Jim DeMint ( R-SC ) amended bill S-1200, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act was first introduced in Congress in 1999 by then-Congressman ( later Senator ) Lindsey Graham ( R-SC ).

However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

In 2000, Senator Paul Le Claire called for a referendum on independence, a proposal which failed to win any significant support.

In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church ( D-Idaho ), and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.

Jokes in the script, mostly written by Glen MacDonough, called for explicit references to President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Mark Hanna, and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller.

In the 1972 presidential campaign, Senator George McGovern called for a ' demogrant ' that was very similar to a basic income.

Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".

Matteo Rosso, called the Great, was the effective lord of Rome from 1241, when he defeated the Imperial troops, to 1243, holding the title of Senator.

A re-instituted ceasefire later followed as part of the negotiations strategy, which saw teams from the British and Irish governments, the Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Féin and representatives of loyalist paramilitary organizations, under the chairmanship of former United States Senator George Mitchell, produced the Belfast Agreement ( also called the Good Friday Agreement as it was signed on Good Friday, 1998 ).

On January 29, 1850, Whig Senator Henry Clay gave a speech which called for compromise on the issues dividing the Union.

The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overcoming U. S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the " slave-labor bill " while President Truman argued that it was a " dangerous intrusion on free speech ," and that it would " conflict with important principles of our democratic society ," Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.

( UTC ) According to published accounts, Senator Gervais said he hoped that " in this town we should find refuge under the wings of COLUMBIA ", for that was the name which he wished it to be called.

Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who was frequently accused, during his tenure in the Senate, of repeatedly inserting pork-barrel spending that favored his state into budget appropriations, called it " an offensive slap at Congress ," asserting that the legislation would enable the President to intimidate individual members of any Congress by targeting the projects of his political opponents.

's grandson, also called Liam also served as a TD and as Senator and his grand daughter Louise Cosgrave served as a Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councillor from 1999 to 2009.

In a government report released in December 2008, Inspector General Devaney called MacDonald's management " abrupt and abrasive, if not abusive ," and U. S. Senator Ron Wyden, who commissioned the report, attributed the " untold waste of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers ' dollars " to MacDonald's actions.

In more recent times, during the so-called " Salmon War " of the 1990s, Washington Senator Slade Gorton called for the U. S. Navy to " force " the Inside Passage, even though it is not an official international waterway.

The heirs of Eulogio de Celis sold the northernly half-- to Senator George K. Porter, who had called it the " Valley of the Cumberland " and Senator Charles Maclay, who exclaimed: " This is the Garden of Eden.

Original legislation called for the creation of a " Stewart County ", after Nevada Senator William M. Stewart, but this was later changed in a substitute bill.

University of California Berkeley's Institute of Government Studies claimed that Davis ' fundraising skills were " second to none in the political arena " while Senator John McCain called Davis ' 2001 goal of $ 26 million " disgraceful.

Originally called " Orange ", the city was renamed Chipley in 1882, for the railroad businessman and Florida State Senator William Dudley Chipley.

John Glenn Middle School ( originally called Bedford Junior High School ) is named for John Glenn, formerly the Superintendent of Schools in Bedford, not for the U. S. Senator and astronaut.

As she called for the election of Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and then U. S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as President and Vice President of the United States, Richards read a letter from an unnamed young mother in Lorena who described herself as " forgotten " by the national leadership.

According to the Augustan History, his mother was a Roman woman called Ulpia Gordiana and his father Roman Senator Maecius Marullus.

" Senator Thune called the move a good, nonpolitical decision.

The hearings were called by a Special Committee of the United States Senate chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who had been appointed to investigate organized crime in Interstate Commerce.