RALEIGH, N.C. Former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died Friday on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
The Jesse Helms Center Foundation, based at Wingate University, said that Helms died at 1:15 a.m. "He was...
Upon hearing the news July 4th that Jesse Helms had passed away, conservatives remembered and hailed the former senator from North Carolina. Certainly, HUMAN EVENTS readers felt that they had shared Helms’ three decades in the Senate...
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, known as an iconic U.S. conservative, died Friday at age 86.
In a statement, President George W. Bush described Helms as "a stalwart defender of limited government and free enterprise, a fearless defender of a culture of...
Next to Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms is the most important conservative of the last 25 years, and episodes like this help reveal that Helms is the most inner-directed person in Washington. He has his own set of priorities, and he doesn't waver. He has...
Former Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a conservative icon who represented the Tarheel State in the Senate for 30 years, died early this morning at the age of 86.
Helms served in the Senate from 1972 to 2002, where he became a leading voice of the...
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