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Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more): Furnifold M. Simmons Lee S. Overman Jesse Helms

North Carolina Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
President Pro Tempore: Jesse Franklin, Nathaniel Macon, Willie P. Mangum, and Matt W. Ransom. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair: Elizabeth Dole Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Jesse Helms Foreign Relations: Jesse Helms Government Operations: Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Rules and Administration: B. Everett Jordan
North Carolina Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Zebulon B. Vance by Gutzon Borglum (Statuary Hall) and Charles B. Aycock by Charles Keck (East central hall) Paintings: Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard C. Christy (House wing, east stairway). This painting contains portraits of North Carolina's delegates at the Constitutional Convention: Richard D. Spaight, William Blount, and Hugh Williamson. Portraits: Nathaniel Macon by Robert D. Gauley after W.G. Randall (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor)


	The National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol has statues donated by individual states. Learn more about your state's statues. Architect's Statuary Hall Web page


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