What the fuck? Strom Thurmond was in office at 100 years old? Am I reading this right?

EDIT: "A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, Thurmond completed the longest single-person Senate filibuster, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957."

Would you look at that... He was something of an expert at overstaying his welcome

EDIT 2: Thurmond died from complications of old age in his sleep at 9:45 p.m. on June 26, 2003, at a hospital in his hometown of Edgefield, South Carolina. He was 100 years old. After lying in state in the rotunda of the South Carolina State House in Columbia, his body was carried on a caisson to the First Baptist Church for services, at which then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware delivered a eulogy,[319] and later to the family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where he is interred.[320][321] Thurmond died on the same day that the United States Supreme Court handed down its Lawrence v. Texas decision, which legalized gay sex across all U.S. states.[322]

Folks, if you didn't know this guy, you gotta read his wiki. It's hilarious. It's like he lived only to see everything he hated happen before his eyes.