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Jul 4, 2008 · Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died. He was 86. Helms died in Raleigh at 1:15 this morning, according to the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, North Carolina.
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Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died ...
Jul 4, 2008 · Jesse Helms, the five-term North Carolina senator who retired in 2003 but left a legacy of strong conservatism — and controversy — in a state that hadn't seen a GOP senator for decades, has died.
The Weekly Standard, Washington's hottest conservative magazine, proclaimed "The Ascendancy of Jesse Helms" in a recent cover story. "Next to Ronald Reagan," wrote executive editor Fred Barnes, "Jesse Helms is the most important conservative of the last 25 years. . . Helms has been a magnetic force on ideology and policy, pulling the entire ...
Jesse Helms was born in 1921 in Monroe in southern North Carolina, where the Ku Klux Klan was a powerful presence and his father – "Big Jesse" – was the local sheriff. His first job was as a ...
Jul 4, 2008 · In the modern Senate, no one played that role as effectively as Jesse Helms, who died early Friday in Raleigh, N.C., at 86. For 30 years, Helms took controversial, sometimes outrageous positions ...
