Pioneer of hard-nosed US politics, Tom Ellis, dies at 97
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ” A storied conservative political operative and central adviser to former Republican U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms has died.U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle said Friday that 97-year-old Tom Ellis of Raleigh, North Carolina, died Thursday. Boyle is Ellis’ son-in-law.Ellis was a lawyer who encouraged Helms to exploit the name recognition he’d built as a North Carolina radio and television commentator and run for U.S. Senate in 1972. After Helms won, Ellis helped […]
