Talk:Strom Thurmond

I decided this could use a historical thumbnail bio hopefully to scare off spammers; but it's hard to do a thumbnail bio on someone whose public career lasted nearly seventy-five years. Actually there was a lot more of interest in his life than I'd realized: the bit about him being a general, for instance, was quite surprising to me. Nor did I know that he'd started out as a teacher--Do we have a category for teachers, by the way?

As for that weird bit about winning the 1954 election but not accepting, getting appointed, resigning, and getting appointed again--I really do wonder what was going on there. Something doesn't sit right about all that fancy footwork. Turtle Fan 21:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)