Strom Thurmond
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James Strom Thurmond was an United States Senator from South Carolina for over fifty years. He served from 1954 to 1964 as a Democrat and from 1964 to 2003 as a Republican. Thurmond was originally a strong supporter of segregation, and when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination, Thurmond changed parties. At Thurmond's one hundredth birthday party, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott stated that things would have been a lot better if Thurmond had been elected president when he ran. This eventually caused Lott resign his position as Majority Leader, as Thurmond had run on a pro-segregation platform.
After Thurmond's death, it was revealed that he had fathered a child with an African American woman.