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South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond in his office in 1948. Thurmond ran for U.S. president on the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948.

Courtesy of the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Clemson University

Strom Thurmond

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