Background
Mr. Helms was born in Monroe, North Carolina, United States, on October 18, 1921. He was a son of Jesse Alexander and Ethel Mae Helms.
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Mr. Helms was born in Monroe, North Carolina, United States, on October 18, 1921. He was a son of Jesse Alexander and Ethel Mae Helms.
Jesse Helms attended Wingate College (later Wingate University), and Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University).
After his graduation, he became a city editor of the Raleigh Times in 1941. The next year he entered the U.S. Navy, in which he served during World War II. After the war Mr. Helms became news and program director at WRAL- Radio in Raleigh, North Carolina. He stayed at WRAL until 1951, when he became an administrative assistant to Senator Willis Smith in Washington, D.C. Two years later, he held the same position for Senator Alton Lennon.
After returning to North Carolina in 1953, Jesse Helms assumed executive directorship of the North Carolina Bankers Association. He held that position until 1960, when he began twelve years of service as executive vice president of the Capital Broadcasting Company, owner of WRAL-Radio. At Capital, Mr. Helms developed a reputation as an outspoken critic of what he perceived as unfair coverage of the South, particularly with regard to civil-rights activities.
Mr. Helms contested for the senate in 1972 and won handily. Jesse Helms won election as a Republican, and once he assumed his seat in the Senate he established himself among the party’s more extreme conservatives. Over the course of his Senate career, which surpasses twenty years, Helms has failed to find widespread support, at least among Senate colleagues, for some of his conservative proposals.
Jesse Helms has articulated his conservative perspective in various books. In 1976, for example, he wrote Where Free Men Shall Stand: A Sobering Look at the Supertaxing, Superspending, Superbureaucracy in Washington, and in 1983 he contributed to the volume The Defense of America: From Assured Destruction to Assured Survival.
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"Every person was created for a purpose, and God has a plan and will for every individual."
Jesse Helms believed that candidates for political office should endorse the Judeo-Christian beliefs, convictions, and values upon which society should rest.
Quotations: "Church decisions should be made as openly as possible, giving opportunities for all to contribute. It is important for all views to be heard and taken seriously, especially where Christians disagree."
Jesse Helms married Dorothy Jane Coble on October 31, 1942. The had two children: Jane, Nancy. He adopted a nine-year-old orphan with cerebral palsy named Charles after reading in a newspaper that Charles wanted a mother and father for Christmas. The couple had seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One of his grandchildren, Jennifer Knox, later became a judge in Wake County, North Carolina.