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| Established | 1994; current building 2001 |
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| Location | Wingate,North Carolina |
| Director | Bill Cobey |
| Website | www.jessehelmscenter.org |
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TheJesse Helms Center, located inWingate,North Carolina and named for its founder,U.S. SenatorJesse Helms, is a repository of Helms' papers, letters, speeches, transcripts of his televised editorials forWRAL-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.[1]
Since 1995, the President of the Jesse Helms Center has been John Dodd.[2] 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 anIvy League university. He instead deposited the material with his home-countyWingate University, a private institution which he had once attended.[3] In 2001, the center opened as a 3.3 million[clarification needed], two-story brick and glass structure situated next to the Wingate Town Hall.[1]
The Helms Center hosts a center-sponsored lecture series with such notable participants as formerBritishPrime MinisterMargaret Thatcher, formerUnited States Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice, and theDalai Lama ofTibet.[1]
The center sponsors the annual Helms Foreign Relations School, which consists of two days of classes held nearWashington, D.C.[1] Helms andNathaniel Macon, who is honored with an exhibit at the Helms Center, are the only North Carolina senators ever to chair theSenate Foreign Relations Committee.
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