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The Strom Thurmond Monument on the South Carolina State House grounds in Columbia is a nine-foot bronze figure on an eight-foot base, designed by William Behrends and installed on 4 December 1999. It was amended in 2005 to add the name of Thurmond's daughter.
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Strom Thurmond Monument
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The South Carolina State House grounds in Columbia hold a bronze figure of Strom Thurmond, erected while its subject was still alive and amended after his death.
Historic Columbia records that the monument was installed on 4 December 1999 and designed by William Behrends. The figure is nine feet tall and stands on an eight-foot base. The Strom Thurmond Monument Commission, chaired by state senator John Courson, raised $850,000 privately, largely from corporate donors. According to Historic Columbia it was the second monument to a living person on the State House grounds; the first was for James F. Byrnes.
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A bronze monument on the grounds of the South Carolina State House, one of more than 30 monuments across the 22-acre complex, according to the Post and Courier in January 2026. The inscription was amended in 2005.
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On the South Carolina State House grounds in Columbia, a public civic site. The Post and Courier photographed the monument there in January 2025.
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