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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Hinton Rowan Helper |
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, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 27, 1829
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| Died | March 09, 1909
(79 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Dec 02, 2022 09:49pm |
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| Info | Helper was born in Davie County NC.
He left NC in 1849 during the Gold Rush hysteria and published a book about his experiences in 1855.
Helper then wrote the book "The Impending Crisis," published in 1857, which used statistics from the U.S. Census of 1850 to show that slavery was undermining the southern economy. His book was banned in many southern states. The Republican National Committee had it reprinted for use in the campaign of 1860.
Helper was associated with Daniel R. Goodloe's efforts to aid the working poor white people of North Carolina in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Throughout his career, Helper was viciously anti-Negro, and his rhetoric against free blacks caused the North Carolina Republican Party to repudiate him.
U.S. Assessor during the Andrew Johnson administration; removed from office for underestimating the value of tobacco. [New York Times 8/26/1872]
Helper was active in a movement in 1869 to form a new worker's party representing the interests of poor whites against immigrant Chinese workers. [New York Times 8/21/1869]
Postmaster of Salisbury NC c. 1870; removed by President Grant after one year in office for offending the patrons. [New York Times 8/26/1872]
In 1872, he was active in the Liberal Republican Party in NC.
Helper's later years were spent trying to organize a transcontinental railroad which would run north to south from Cape Horn to Hudson Bay. [New York Times 5/31/1880]
When he learned in 1909 that funding for his transcontinental railroad idea had again been rejected, he committed suicide in his Washington DC boarding house. [New York Times 3/10/1909]
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