At 86 years old:
Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, a leading conservative on Capitol Hill, died Friday morning. He was 86.
The Jesse Helms Center posted a brief statement on its Web site saying Helms died at 1:15 a.m. in Raleigh, N.C.
“He was very comfortable,” said former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton, who added Helms died of natural causes in Raleigh.
The five-term senator from North Carolina formerly chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and often railed against Communism, liberalism and big government.
Known by some as “Senator No” for his opposition to Democratic measures, Helms was a polarizing figure for his positions on social issues.
He was a proponent of school prayer and an opponent of abortion rights and gay rights groups.
Colleagues said he always was a gentleman, no matter what his positions were.
“America has lost a great public servant and true patriot today,” a White House spokesman said, after learning of Helms’ death on the Fourth of July.
Liberals hated this man – but he was, by all accounts, a very kind person who treated everyone with the respect they were due as human beings…and when slavery reared its ugly head in Africa, it wasn’t the “civil rights” movement which led the fight against it, but Senator Jesse Helms.
May God bless you, Senator, and bring you home.
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