Strom Thurmond

James Strom Thurmond was an American politician and lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during President Joseph Kennedy Jr.'s first term. A Democrat from South Carolina and an ardent segregationist, Thurmond was appointed to appeal to southern Democrats who had supported Kennedy in the presidential election of 1952. When Kennedy introduced the Full Rights Bill to Congress (which permitted the Attorney General to intervene in civil rights matters), he hoped that southerners could be persuaded to support the bill with the assurance that Thurmond would never use his powers to ensure equal rights for black Americans. Amid the rioting that followed the Supreme Court ruling in Andrews v. Wichita, Thurmond was quietly pushed out and replaced by J. William Fulbright, who was as ardent a segregationist as Thurmond.

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Thurmond is mentioned in Parts 72 and 73 of For All Time.