Sen. Theodore Bilbo's incitements to racial violence gave him a spotlight before getting him into serious trouble.

An opening day fight in 1947 had Republicans vowing to fight a Democratic filibuster bid to get a racist Mississippi senator sworn in.

Mississippi’s Theodore (“The Man”) Bilbo arosein the Senate one day last week to display a bulky petition. It bore,said he, the names of 2,500,000 U. S. Negroes who would prefer to live in ...

Striking aid came to Senator Harrison from Senator Bilbo’s one-time law partner, Stuart C. (“Sweep Clean”) Broom, with a speech which brought down the house wherever he delivered it. Boomed ...

No character in Katznelson’s book troubles the waters like Mississippi’s governor, and then senator, Theodore Bilbo.

On this day in 1947, Sen. Theodore Bilbo died in a New Orleans hospital at age 69 from oral cancer after the Senate had ducked a showdown on whether to seat him for a third term.

Bilbo, who died in 1947, was a Democrat who served two terms as governor of Mississippi from 1916-1920 and from 1928-1932, according to the National Governors Association.

The statue of Mississippi ex-Gov. Bilbo quietly disappeared last week but was found this week in a storage room at the state capitol.

Bilbo was a Democrat known for racist rhetoric. He was governor from 1916 until 1920 and again for the 1928-1932 term. He was in the U.S. Senate from 1935 until he died in 1947.

The statue of former governor Theodore Bilbo has reportedly been gone from its spot in a House committee room since early January, but it was noticed this week.