Political Timeline
- Governor of South Carolina (1947–1951)
- States' Rights Democratic presidential candidate (1948)
- Eight-term senator from South Carolina (December 1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – January 2003)
- Democrat (1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – September 1964)
- Republican (September 1964 – January 2003)
- President pro tempore (1981–1987; 1995 – January 3, 2001; January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001)
- Set record for the longest one-man Congressional filibuster (1957)
- Set record for oldest serving member at 94 years (1997)
- Set the then-record for longest cumulative tenure in the Senate at 43 years (1997), increasing to 47 years, 6 months at his retirement in January 2003, surpassed by Robert Byrd in July 2006
- Became the only senator ever to serve at the age of 100
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