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Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (18 October 1921 – 4 July 2008) was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 - 2001. He was perhaps the last unreconstructed Southern conservative who started out in the Democratic Party when they symbolized racial conservatism and transitioned in the early 1970s to being a Republican. Helms was a major influence on social conservatism; credited with intervening to... full article at wikipedia

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