Strom Thurmond Jr. resigns as S.C.'s top federal prosecutor

[Freddie Stubbs]

Published Thursday, December 2nd, 2004


COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - U.S. Attorney Strom Thurmond Jr., the state's top federal prosecutor the past three years, says he will resign.

Thurmond, the son of late Sen. Strom Thurmond who died in 2003, told The (Columbia) State he wants to return to private practice in Aiken, where he was born.

"It has been the highest of honors and the opportunity of a lifetime to have served in your administration," he wrote in his resignation letter to John Ashcroft last month.

Thurmond, 32, told the in a story published Thursday that he would join the firm of Smith, Massey and Brodie. "I guess we'll stick Thurmond in there somewhere," he said.

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