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| | Online NewsHour Update: Strom Thurmond Dies at 100 -- June 27, 2003 |
 | | Strom Thurmond, a maverick Dixiecrat-turned-Republican who led the longest single filibuster in U.S. history and served in the U.S. Senate nearly 50 years, died late Thursday at the age of 100. |
 | | Thurmond's son, Strom, Jr., said his father passed away at 9:45 pm EDT Thursday at a hospital in Edgefield, S.C. "Surrounded by family, my father was resting comfortably without pain and in total peace," Strom Thurmond, Jr. |
 | | He was elected South Carolina governor in 1946 as a Democrat, but quickly came to oppose many of the moves being made by his national party. |
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