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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“Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained—in success—and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man’s highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.”
—Martin Buber (1878–1965)