A Democratic Congressman and U.S. Senator, FurnifoldM. Simmons was born on January 20, 1854 to Furnifold Green, Jr., and Mary McLendel Jerman Simmons of Jones County, North Carolina.
Simmons, however, later explained that he only did what was absolutely essential to win the election and secure a return to white governance.
Although Simmons after thirty years in the Senate misunderstood a younger generation of politicians, he lost his Senatorial seat to Bailey primarily because he deserted Alfred Smith in 1928 and because he was in office when America’s economic depression began.
Simmons warned the party before it held its convention at Houston, Texas, that he would not accept the candidacy of the New Yorker, who already was advocating the repeat of the Eighteenth Amendment and its enabling statute, the Volstead Act.
Simmons retired to "the home in which I was born, the home of my ancestors," and, refraining from politics, became a farmer.
Simmons was elected to the Fiftieth Congress, from the Second North Carolina district, and at the expiration of that term returned to the practice of law.
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