Senator Bilbo vows that 8,000,000 of the 12,000,000 U. S. Negroes would hop at the chance to escape the white man’s yoke, live on the white man’s subsidies until they establish farms and ...

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.

Theodore G. Bilbo, a Democrat, had twice been governor of Mississippi before he served in the U.S. Senate from 1935 to 1947, when “the growing intolerance among many whites toward public racism ...

On this day in 1947, Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-Miss.) 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.. He was also a Ku Klux ...

Bilbo served as governor of Mississippi from 1916-20 and 1928-32 before also serving as a U.S. senator from 1935 until he died in 1947. His statue sat in the Capitol rotunda for years until ...

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 1946 election results gave them a majority in the Senate, but only after the newly elected senators were sworn in. Swearing-in occurs alphabetically, so “Bilbo” came up early in the process.

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. Advertisement ...