Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Furnifold McLendel Simmons

American senator for North Carolina

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1854

Place of Birth: Pollocksville, North Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1940

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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 As a leader of the state Democratic Party, Simmons led the 1898–1900 White Supremacy campaigns that effectively disenfranchised black voters for a half-century.
From his Senate seat, he then ran a powerful political machine, using A.
D.
Watts "to keep the machine oiled back home," in the words of one journalist.Senator Simmons refused to endorse Al Smith, the Democratic nominee for president in 1928, winning him praise from members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Still, rejecting the Democratic nominee in 1928, together with the Great Depression, led to Simmons being defeated in the 1930 Democratic primary by Josiah W.
Bailey, who was backed by Governor O.
Max Gardner.