Furnifold McLendel Simmons
(1854-1940)
American senator for North Carolina
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Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854 – April 30, 1940) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between March 4, 1901 and March 4, 1931. He served as chairman of the powerful Committee on Finance from March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1919. He was an unsuccessful contender for the 1920 Democratic Party nomination for president. Simmons was a staunch segregationist, white supremacist and a leading perpetrator of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898.
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20 January 1854 Pollocksville, North Carolina
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| Died |
30 April 1940 (aged 86) New Bern, North Carolina
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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