John Porter East (May 5 1931 – June 29 1986) was a Republican U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1981 until his suicide in 1986.A paraplegic since 1955 because of polio East was a professor of political science at East Carolina University in Greenville and a protégé of conservative Senator Jesse Helms. East ran unsuccessfully for a vacancy in the United States House of Representatives in a special election in 1966 a race won by Walter B.
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1986-06-29
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1981-01-03
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Earlham College, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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