Strom Thurmond Fund

The Strom Thurmond Scholarship was created in November 1978 by family and friends of the late The Honorable J. Strom Thurmond. Senator Thurmond, who was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1930, died in June 2003. Senator Thurmond was elected to the United States Senate in 1954, and at the time of his death in 2003 at age 100, he stood as the longest serving and oldest Senator in U.S. history with 48 years of service. The Scholarship is awarded based on financial need and academic merit.