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Bookmark or Share- Jesse Helms - WikipediaJesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician. A leader in the conservative movement, he served as a senator from North Carolina from 1973 to 2003.
- Senator Helms Biography - The Jesse Helms CenterHelms remembered hearing Walter Cronkite say, “Down in North Carolina, a fellow named Jesse Helms has been elected to the United States Senate.” Helms was sworn into office in January 1973 and quickly rose to an influential position in the Senate, where he is credited as being one of the key leaders in the rise of the modern conservative ...
- Our Story | The Jesse Helms CenterJesse A. Helms was a five-term U.S. senator from North Carolina. As a young man, Helms received a scholarship to attend Wingate College, now Wingate University. Therefore, according to Senator Helms, there is no better place for him to donate his senatorial and personal papers.
- Jesse Helms (1921-2008) - North Carolina HistoryA reporter, television-radio executive, and U.S. Senator, Jesse Helms was born October 18, 1921, in Monroe, N.C., to Jesse Alexander and Ethel Mae Helms.
- Jesse Helms Dies at 86; Conservative Force in the SenateJesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art,...
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