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1996 - Helms Defeats Gantt
Event Date:
November 5, 1996
Event Type:
90s Charlotte 1990-1999
November 5, 1996 - Helms defeats Gantt.
- Winning a rare fifth term, conservative senator Jessie Helms defeats Harvey Gantt for the second time in six years.
- Gantt, Charlotte’s former mayor, declares that he will “find a way to serve. We are going to work for change.”
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