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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“If all political power be derived only from Adam, and be to descend only to his successive heirs, by the ordinance of God and divine institution, this is a right antecedent and paramount to all government; and therefore the positive laws of men cannot determine that, which is itself the foundation of all law and government, and is to receive its rule only from the law of God and nature.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)