Former N.C. Senator and conservative firebrand Jesse Helms dies on Independence Day. He was 86. :: W
Jesse Helms, the firebrand United States senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.
"I thought he died years ago".
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