He ran for president in only one election with Fielding Wright as his running mate. He got his start as as a superintendent, and later became a judge, leaving that post to serve in World War II, where he was a decorated colonel. Winning his Senate seat from Burnet Maybank, it was the ugly loss of a protégé Albert Watson, that caused his 1970 decision to hire black aide Tho
He ran for president in only one election with Fielding Wright as his running mate. He got his start as as a superintendent, and later became a judge, leaving that post to serve in World War II, where he was a decorated colonel. Winning his Senate seat from Burnet Maybank, it was the ugly loss of a protégé Albert Watson, that caused his 1970 decision to hire black aide Thomas Moss in order to survive as a Senator and remove himself from his former pro-segregation policies. FTP, name this 1948 presidential candidate and long-serving senator, a South Carolinian recently exposed for having a black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams.
He ran for president in only one election with Fielding Wright as his running mate.
(James) Strom {Thurmond}