biography
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Simmons, Furnifold (McLendel)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1940)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Jones Co, North Carolina, USA. After leading a movement to deny African-Americans the right to vote, he was elected to the US House of Representatives (Democrat, North Carolina, 1887–9) and to the US Senate (1901–31). He managed to hold control over Democratic politics in North Carolina while advancing his conservative views in the Senate through the committee posts he gained by seniority. |
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