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Jesse Helms Center

About Jesse Helms Center

The Jesse Helms Center, located in Wingate, North Carolina and named for its founder, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, is a repository of Helms' papers, letters, speeches, transcripts of his televised editorials for WRAL-TV, books of faith, and a replica of his Senate desk and office. There are also campaign materials, such as polling information, walled editorial cartoons, and advertisements.

Since 1995, the President of the Jesse Helms Center has been John Dodd. The organization is governed by a board of directors.

The Helms Center was established in 1994, after Helms rejected requests that his papers be left to an Ivy League university. He instead deposited the material with his home-county Wingate University, a private institution which he had once attended. In 2001, the center opened as a 3.3 million, two-story brick and glass structure situated next to the Wingate Town Hall.

The Helms Center hosts a center-sponsored lecture series with such notable participants as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and the Dalai Lama of Tibet.

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Founded
1994
Director
Bill Cobey

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Photos of Jesse Helms Center

  1. Jesse Helms Center, North Carolina01North CarolinaBilly Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. Replica of Jesse Helms Senate office, Wingate, NC IMG02Replica of Jesse Helms Senate office, Wingate, NCBilly Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. Richard Russell quotation at Helms Center in Wingate, NC IMG03Richard Russell quotation at Helms Center in Wingate, NCBilly Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. Jesse Helms, Sr., quotation, Wingate, NC IMG04Jesse Helms, Sr., quotation, Wingate, NCBilly Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. Outside of the Helms Center, Wingate, NC IMG05Outside of the Helms Center, Wingate, NCBilly Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0

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