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.
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}