Elizabeth Dole
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Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, she previou
Official portrait, 2003
Dole in the Duke University yearbook, 1958
Elizabeth Dole with friend and mentor Virginia Knauer
The official Department of Labor portrait of Elizabeth Dole
Jesse Helms
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Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. was an American politician, a journalist, and Navy veteran. A leader in the conservative and nationalist movement, he represented North Carolina in the United States Senate f
Elizabeth Dole
…Watergate complex to her mother's home in Salisbury to seek election to the U.S. Senate. The seat was made available by the retirement of Republican Jesse Helms. Although Dole had not lived regularly in North Carolina since 1959 and had been a resident of the Washington area for most of the time since the…
Jesse Helms
Advice from Jesse A. Helms Sr., to his son; Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, North Carolina
U.S. Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia told Helms in 1952 that he hoped Helms would one day become a senator; Helms achieved this 20 years later, but Russell did not live to see it.
Helms c. 1973