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Strom Thurmond

1902 - 2003

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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Before his 48 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of South Carolina from 1947 to 1951. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Strom Thurmond has received more than 7,026,322 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Strom Thurmond is the 11,694th most popular politician (up from 12,069th in 2019), the 4,753rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,876th in 2019) and the 302nd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Strom Thurmond ranks 11,694 out of 15,577Before him are Mariamne, Francesco Erizzo, Alexander Protopopov, Ariarathes III of Cappadocia, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, and Alexander Lebedev. After him are Dawit II, José López Rega, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Giovanni Lanza, and Mohamed Bazoum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Strom Thurmond ranks 176Before him are Herma Szabo, Vissarion Shebalin, Sergei Khudyakov, Vasil Mzhavanadze, Juan Evaristo, and Bobby Jones. After him are Andrés Mazali, George Kingsley Zipf, Son House, Ilmari Salminen, André Patry, and Georgette Heyer. Among people deceased in 2003, Strom Thurmond ranks 173Before him are Gregory Hines, Garrett Hardin, Bigode, Henryk Jabłoński, Françoise Giroud, and Isao Iwabuchi. After him are Alexander Kemurdzhian, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Art Carney, Timothy Treadwell, Aleksandar Tišma, and Veikko Hakulinen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Strom Thurmond ranks 4,753 out of 18,182Before him are David Chase (1945), Richard Montague (1930), Art Farmer (1928), Stephen Collins (1947), Joe Haldeman (1943), and Octavia E. Butler (1947). After him are Broderick Crawford (1911), Martin Donovan (1957), Ram Dass (1931), Kevin Schwantz (1964), Fred Gwynne (1926), and Gene Wolfe (1931).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Strom Thurmond ranks 302Before him are Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), George Andrew Reisner (1867), Janet Jagan (1920), Grace Coolidge (1879), Edmund Muskie (1914), and W. Averell Harriman (1891). After him are Edmund Randolph (1753), John Hay (1838), Dianne Feinstein (1933), Patrick Leahy (1940), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), and Vince Lombardi (1913).