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, 18879) and to the US Senate (190131). 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.
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (20 January 1854 - 30 April 1940) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1889 and U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1901 and 1931.
As a leader of the state Democratic Party, Simmons led the White Supremacy campaigns that effectively disfranchised black voters for a half-century.
Senator Simmons refused to endorse Al Smith, the Democratic nominee for president in 1928.
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