Strom Thurmond Autographs

James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Before his 49 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of South Carolina from 1947 to 1951. Thurmond was officially a member of the Democratic Party in the Senate until 1964, when he joined the Republican Party. He had earlier run for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate in opposition to Democratic president Harry Truman, receiving over a million votes and winning four states.
A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, Thurmond completed what was then the longest Senate speech at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957; it was surpassed by Senator Cory Booker's speech in April 2025. In the 1960s, Thurmond voted against both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Despite his support for racial segregation, Thurmond denied the accusation that he was a racist by insisting he was a supporter of states' rights and an opponent of excessive federal authority. Thurmond switched parties ahead of the 1964 United States presidential election, saying that the Democratic Party no longer represented people like him, and endorsed Republican nominee Barry Goldwater, who also opposed the Civil Rights Act. By the 1970s, Thurmond started to moderate his stance on race, but continued to defend his prior support for segregation based on states' rights and Southern society at the time. With Thurmond's party switch, he became the first Republican U.S. Senator from South Carolina since Reconstruction in 1879.
As a Republican, Thurmond served three times as President pro tempore of the United States Senate, and chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1981 to 1987 and the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1995 to 1999. He retired in 2003 as the only member of either chamber of Congress to reach the age of 100 while still in office and the oldest-serving senator; he died less than six months later. His 47 years as a senator, a record at the time, is the fourth-longest in U.S. history behind Robert Byrd, Daniel Inouye, and Patrick Leahy. Thurmond was also, at 14 years, the longest-serving Dean of the United States Senate.
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Traded items with a signature of Strom Thurmond

The most expensive item with a signature of Strom Thurmond (Robert Lee Scott Jr | The Honorable Strom Thurmond / God Is Still My Signed 1st) was sold in April 2025 for $331.50 while the cheapest item (STROM THURMOND - VINTAGE HAND SIGNED COLOR MATTE FINISH 8X10 PHOTO WITH COA...) found a new owner for $0.99 in November 2020. The month with the most items sold (3) was April 2008 with an average selling price of $8.27 for an autographed item of Strom Thurmond. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2016 with $39.95 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.32 was April 2009. In average, an autographed item from Strom Thurmond is worth $9.25.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Strom Thurmond were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Signed Photo Senator Strom Thurmond State's Right South Carolina Civil Rights	$15.00
	Strom Thurmond - South Carolina Senator - Signed 8x10 Photograph	$7.16
	Strom Thurmond - South Carolina Senator - Signed 8x10 Photograph	$7.16
	Strom Thurmond - South Carolina Senator - Signed First Day Cover	$16.46
	Strom Thurmond - South Carolina Senator - Signed First Day Cover	$16.46
	Strom Thurmond - South Carolina Senator - Signed Photograph	$5.13
	Strom Thurmond - South Carolina Senator - Signed Photograph	$5.13
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from SC - Signed 3x5 Card	$6.00
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from SC - Signed 3x5 Card	$6.00
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina - Signed 3x5 Card	$7.94
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina - Signed 3x5 Card	$7.94
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina - Signed 3x5 Card	$17.50
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina - Signed 3x5 Card	$17.50
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina - Signed 3x5 Card	$16.50
	Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina - Signed 3x5 Card	$16.50