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 ...

In spite of the fact that Senator Harrison got Bilbo a $6,000 job in Washington when that undersized politician was down & out of office, and in spite of favors he did Bilbo after his election to ...

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 ...

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.

The location of a missing bronze statue of early-20th century Mississippi Gov. Theodore Bilbo — a notorious white supremacist — was revealed last week. Mississippi State House Clerk Andrew ...

A 2020 graduate of Kent State University with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Aaron has worked as an assigning editor and reporter for KSU's student-run newspaper The Kent Stater, as well as a ...

JACKSON (AP) — Mystery solved: The top administrator in the Mississippi House says he unilaterally made the decision to take a statue of a racist former Gov. Theodore Bilbo off public display ...

At the opening of the 80th Congress, the threat of cloture reform ended a filibuster intended to help Bilbo (D-Miss.) keep his Senate seat. From 1935 to 1946, Bilbo was one of the loudest and ...

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 ...