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    Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician. A leader in the conservative movement, he served as a senator...
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  • University named its School of Government after Falwell family friend Senator Jesse Helms. In 2005, Barron's Profiles of American Colleges ranked undergraduate...
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    sued Helms, saying that the mailers were intended to intimidate African-Americans from voting. As the campaign's legal counsel, Farr defended Helms in the...
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    become U.S. citizens. The Act is named for its original sponsors, Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, and Representative Dan Burton, Republican...
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    Birmingham Jesse Franklin, Democratic-Republic senator and governor of North Carolina Jesse Gray, New York civil rights leader and politician Jesse Helms, Republican...
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    Kennedy. Helms then was DCI under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, yielding to James R. Schlesinger in early 1973. While working as the DCI, Helms managed...
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  • 101.5 MHz in 1947. It concurrently increased its ERP to 54,000 watts. Jesse Helms became the news director of the radio stations in 1948, adding TV duties...
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  • elected officials, such as US Senator Jesse Helms, for politicizing the disease, writing in the Globe in 1995: Helms is invincibly ignorant about AIDS, a...
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  • Congress. Its current senators are Republicans Thom Tillis and Ted Budd. Jesse Helms was North Carolina's longest-serving senator (1973–2003). United States...
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  • refer to: Adam Helms (born 1974), American artist Bobby Helms (1933-1997), American country music singer Robert Lee Helms Chet Helms (1942-2005), American...
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  • in 1992, when Senator Jesse Helms cited it as an example of indecent films that should not be broadcast by cable channels. Helms' attempt to introduce...
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    65 or over. The town is known mainly for Wingate University and the Jesse Helms Center, K-Ci & JoJo and Walter Collin Burleson. "History". Town of Wingate...
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    Biden held the chairmanship from January 3 to 20, then was succeeded by Jesse Helms until June 6, and thereafter held the position until 2003. Delaware's...
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  • a first-person narrative style in the form of a "letter" to Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), the filmmaker explores the parallels and differences between...
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    against him.[citation needed] The Jesse Helms family was prominent among the white community during these years. Jesse Helms Sr. served as Police and Fire...
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    some 83,000 votes. He served alongside fellow Republican Senator Jesse Helms until Helms left office in 2003, having chosen to not seek reelection in 2002...
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    the acting National Security Advisor. A childhood friend of Senator Jesse Helms, he later worked as a Congressional aide. James Wilson Nance was born...
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    Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, losing to incumbent Republican Jesse Helms both times. Gantt was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Wilhelminia...
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    election was fought between the Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and Democratic Governor Jim Hunt. Helms won the election, the most expensive non-presidential...
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    to follow suit with its own missiles. Later that month, Thurmond and Jesse Helms wrote to President Ford requesting he meet with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
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    Carolina Senator Jesse Helms) were infuriated by Reagan's choice of the "liberal" Schweiker, while few moderate delegates switched to Reagan. Helms promptly began...
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    withdraw his name. Elliot Abrams filled the position. Republican senator Jesse Helms, a staunch conservative, was committee chairman in the late 1990s. He...
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    election. Afterward, Faircloth grew close with Republican Senator Jesse Helms and supported Helms' 1990 reelection campaign. On February 14, 1991, Faircloth...
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    incumbent Jesse Helms and then-incumbent Democratic Governor Jim Hunt. This election was one of the most dramatic in 1984. In the end, Helms won the election...
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    2007. Transcript of Helms's introduction of the amendment at the Library of Congress. Accessed January 26, 2004. Jesse Helms, "Helms Introduces Amendment...
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    1989, he declined an offer by Democratic party officials to run against Jesse Helms, a Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina. In July 2010, he also...
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    election was between the Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and the Democratic nominee John Ingram. Helms won re-election, by a slightly wider margin than...
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    election between Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and Democratic nominee Harvey Gantt, the former Mayor of Charlotte. Helms won re-election to a fifth and final...
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    percent for Galifianakis. Galifianakis in turn was defeated by Republican Jesse Helms in the general election. At the time, Jordan was 76 and his health was...
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    The Jesse Helms Center, located in Wingate, North Carolina and named for its founder, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, is a repository of Helms' papers, letters...
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