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Thurmond was 44 when he married his first wife, Jean Crouch (1926–1960), in the South Carolina Governor's mansion on November 7, 1947. In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College , Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina .
- Edgefield Village Cemetery
- 1942–1964
Crouch. Thurmond. First wife of Senator James Strom Thurmond First Lady of South Carolina from 1947 to 1951 She was a 1947 graduate of Winthrop College (now University) in Rock Hill, SC, York County. She was married in the Governor's Mansion in Columbia, SC, Richland County on November 7, 1947.
Nov 2, 1988 · wife, Jean Crouch in 1947. He was 44. She was 21 and a member of his. ... to Jean's death from brain cancer. in 1960. Alberta Lachicotte, whose book "Rebel Senator" chronicled the.
- Jim Naughton
Jun 26, 2003 · Thurmond's first wife, Jean Crouch, was 23 years his junior. The couple married in 1947, and she died of a brain tumor in 1960.
Jun 27, 2003 · At 44, Mr. Thurmond proposed to his 20-year-old secretary, Jean Crouch, in an intraoffice memorandum he dictated to her. She consented by memorandum, and by all accounts it was a happy marriage.
May 29, 2018 · Thurmond married for the first time at age 47 to one of his 21 year-old secretaries, Jean Crouch. In 1968, at age 66, eight years after his first wife's death from cancer, he married Nancy Moore, a 25 year-old former Miss South Carolina. They had four children before amicably separating in 1991. Further Reading
The Jean Crouch Thurmond series primarily covers the period 1947–1960, from her courtship with Governor Thurmond to her death. The records are divided into five subseries: Wedding Correspondence, General Correspondence, General Subject File, Illness/Sympathy, and three oversize volumes of Scrapbooks.
