re: Lattimore, Jeffery want South Carolina to rename Strom Thurmond Wellness Center

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What else is Storm Thurmond known for?

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Purple Heart
Bronze Medal
Legion of Merit
WWII Victory medal
European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal
Order of the Crown
Croix de Guerre

Circuit Court Judge

Governor of South Carolina
- expanded state education
- tried to get justice for a lynching (unsuccessfully) bit was still honored by the NAACP and ACLU for his efforts

Oldest and longest serving member of the Senate
- only person to ever win as a write-in
- opposed the literacy test bill offered by the Kennedy administration
- as part of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee, he endorsed the placement of the US anti-ballistic missile defense system
- nominated Thurgood Marshall to succeed Tom Clark as on the SCOTUS
- was able to secure a ton of federal money to be allocated to South Carolina.
- voted against doing away with the electoral college in 1970
- voted to give residents of Washington DC full voting rights and representation on Congress and the Senate and lead the floor debates on the bill
- for the first time in SC history, he appointed a black man to his Senate staff, the appointment being the second of a black man in the United States
- successfully secured South Carolina the largest disaster relief package at the time in US history after Hurricane Hugo
- One of the leaders of getting the Balanced Budget Act passed in 1982
- Introduced and successfully passed a bill granting protected leave for workers with a newborn child, a newly adopted child, or a seriously ill child