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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaFurnifold McLendel SIMMONS
(1854-1940)
Senate Years of Service:
1901-1931Party: DemocratSIMMONS, Furnifold
McLendel, a Representative and a Senator from North
Carolina; born on his father’s plantation near Polloksville,
Jones County, N.C., January 20, 1854; attended a private school and
Wake Forest (N.C.) College; graduated from Trinity College (now
Duke University), Durham, N.C., in 1873; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1875; moved to New Bern, Craven County, N.C., in 1876
and commenced the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the
Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress and
for election to Congress in 1890; resumed the practice of law in
New Bern; appointed by President Grover Cleveland as collector of
internal revenue for the fourth district of North Carolina
1893-1897; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1900; reelected in 1906, 1912, 1918 and 1924 and served from March
4, 1901, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1930; chairman, Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive
Papers (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Engrossed Bills
(Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Finance
(Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on
Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Sixty-sixth
Congress); resided in New Bern, N.C., until his death there on
April 30, 1940; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Rippy, J. Fred, ed.
F.M. Simmons: Statesman of the New South. Durham: Duke
University Press, 1936; Watson, Richard L., Jr. “Furnifold M.
Simmons and the Politics of White Supremacy.” In Race,
Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert
F. Durden, edited by Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and
Charles L. Flynn, Jr., pp. 126-72. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1989.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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