James Strom Thurmond Jr.

Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 1972

James Strom Thurmond Jr. (born October 18, 1972) is a former United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina and 2nd Circuit Solicitor. He is one of four children born to long-serving United States Senator Strom Thurmond and Nancy (Moore) Thurmond. His younger brother, Paul, is a former member of the South Carolina Senate. He is the half-brother of late author Essie Mae Washington-Williams, through his father. Thurmond graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1995 and University of South Carolina School of Law in 1998. He is the oldest currently living child of Strom Thurmond following the deaths of his older sister Nancy in 1993 and his half-sister Essie in 2013.