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1960 United States Senate election in South Carolina

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Field	Value
election_name	1960 Democratic Senate primary in South Carolina
country	South Carolina
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1956 United States Senate special election in South Carolina
previous_year	1956 (special)
next_election	1966 United States Senate election in South Carolina
next_year	1966
election_date	June 4, 1960
image_size	x150px
image1	StromThurmond.png
nominee1	Strom Thurmond
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote1	273,795
percentage1	89.50%
image2	3x4.svg
nominee2	Robert B. Herbert
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote2	32,136
percentage2	10.50%
map_size	155px
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	Strom Thurmond
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Strom Thurmond
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1960 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 8, 1960, to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Popular incumbent Senator Strom Thurmond easily won the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.

This was Thurmond's last Senate race in which he ran as a Democrat; in 1964 he switched parties to Republican to oppose the Democrats' support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and continued to serve until he left office in 2003 and was succeeded by Lindsey Graham (R). , this is the last time that Democrats won South Carolina's Class 2 Senate seat.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Robert Beverly Herbert, Columbia lawyer
Strom Thurmond, incumbent Senator since 1954 and candidate for president in 1948

Campaign

Herbert argued that Thurmond's means of opposing the civil rights legislation in the 1950s was unconstructive and instead if he were in the Senate he would express to the country how the blacks were benefited by white rule. Herbert's campaign was little more than token opposition as Thurmond racked up a huge victory and won another term because he did not have an opponent in the general election.

Results

Election results

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References

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