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Theodore G. Bilbo

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American politician (1877–1947)

Theodore G. Bilbo
United States Senator
fromMississippi
In office
January 3, 1935 – August 21, 1947
Preceded byHubert D. Stephens
Succeeded byJohn C. Stennis
39th and 43rdGovernor of Mississippi
In office
January 17, 1928 – January 19, 1932
LieutenantCayton B. Adam
Preceded byDennis Murphree
Succeeded byMartin Sennett Conner
In office
January 18, 1916 – January 20, 1920
LieutenantLee M. Russell
Preceded byEarl L. Brewer
Succeeded byLee M. Russell
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
In office
January 16, 1912 – January 18, 1916
GovernorEarl L. Brewer
Preceded byLuther Manship
Succeeded byLee M. Russell
Member of theMississippi Senate
from the 4th district
In office
January 7, 1908 – January 4, 1912
Preceded byHenry Mounger
Succeeded byMilton U. Mounger
Personal details
Born
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo

(1877-10-13)October 13, 1877
Juniper Grove, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedAugust 21, 1947(1947-08-21) (aged 69)
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Resting placeJuniper Grove Cemetery,Poplarville, Mississippi, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)
Lillian Selita Herrington
(m. 1898; died 1899)

Lida Ruth Gaddy
Education
ProfessionAttorney

Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (October 13, 1877 – August 21, 1947) was an American politician who twice served asgovernor of Mississippi (1916–1920, 1928–1932) and later was elected aU.S. Senator (1935–1947). Bilbo was ademagogue andfilibusterer whose name was synonymous withwhite supremacy.[1] Like many SouthernDemocrats of his era, Bilbo believed that black people were inferior; he defendedsegregation, and was a member of theKu Klux Klan, the United States' largestwhite supremacist terrorist organization.[2][3][4] He also published a pro-segregation work,Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization.

Bilbo was educated in ruralHancock County (later Pearl River County). He attendedPeabody Normal College inNashville, Tennessee, andVanderbilt University Law School. After teaching school, he attained admission to the bar in 1906 and practiced inPoplarville.[5] He then served in theMississippi State Senate for four years, from 1908 to 1912.

Bilbo overcame accusations of accepting bribes and won an election forlieutenant governor, a position that he held from 1912 to 1916. In 1915, he was electedgovernor and served from 1916 to 1920. During this term, he earned accolades for enactingProgressive measures such as compulsory school attendance and increased spending on public works projects. He was an unsuccessful candidate for theUnited States House of Representatives in 1920.

Bilbo won the election to the governorship again in 1927, and he served from 1928 to 1932. During this term, Bilbo caused controversy by attempting to move theUniversity of Mississippi fromOxford toJackson. In another controversy, he aided Democratic nomineeAl Smith in the1928 presidential election by spreading the story that Republican nomineeHerbert Hoover had socialized with a black woman; Mississippi voters, considering whether to maintain their allegiance to the Democratic Party in light of Smith's Catholicism and support for the repeal ofProhibition, largely remained with Smith after Bilbo's appeal to racism.[6]

In 1930, under Governor Bilbo, Mississippi introduced asales tax—the first American state to do so. In 1934, Bilbo won election to a seat in theUnited States Senate. In the Senate, Bilbo maintained his support for segregation and white supremacy; he was also attracted to the ideas of theblack separatist movement, considering it a potentially viable method of maintaining segregation. He proposed resettling the 12 million American blacks in Africa. In his second term, he made anti-black racism a major theme. Regarding economic policy, he moved away from support for the New Deal and increasingly joined theConservative Coalition. Opposing Roosevelt, he became isolationist in foreign policy and opposed labor unions. He was the leader in fighting FDR'sFair Employment Practice Committee and helped kill the nomination of New DealerAubrey Willis Williams, a liberal Southerner, to head theRural Electrification Administration. Although reelected to a third term in 1946, liberals led byGlen H. Taylor blocked his seating based on denying the vote to blacks and accepting bribes. By the time he died (without taking his seat), the national media had made him the symbol of racism.[7]

Bilbo died in a New Orleans hospital while undergoing cancer treatment and was buried at Juniper Grove Cemetery in Poplarville. Bilbo was of short stature (5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)), frequently wore bright, flashy clothing to draw attention to himself, and was nicknamed "The Man" because he tended to refer to himself in the third person.[8]

Education and family background

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On October 13, 1877, Bilbo was born in the small town of Juniper Grove inHancock (later Pearl River) County.[9] His parents, Obedience "Beedy" (née Wallis or Wallace) and James Oliver Bilbo, were ofScotch-Irish descent; James was a farmer and veteran of theConfederate States Army who rose from poverty during Theodore Bilbo's early years to become Vice President of the Poplarville National Bank.[9][10] Theodore Bilbo obtained a scholarship to attendPeabody Normal College inNashville, Tennessee,[9] and later attendedVanderbilt University Law School, but did not graduate from either.[11] He also taught school and worked at a drug store during his legal studies.[12] During his teaching career, Bilbo was accused of being overly familiar with a female student.[13] He wasadmitted to the bar inTennessee in 1906, and began a law practice inPoplarville, Mississippi, the following year.[14]

Although he had been admitted to the senior class at Vanderbilt, he left without graduating. He was accused of cheating in academics, but he likely left school for financial reasons.[15] Though these accusations never rose to the level of formal charges, they helped create the perception that Bilbo was profligate and dishonest.[16]

State Senate

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On November 5, 1907, Bilbo was elected to theMississippi State Senate.[14] He served there from 1908 to 1912. In 1909 he attended non-credit summer courses at theUniversity of Michigan Law School when the legislature was not in session.[17][18]

In 1910, Bilbo attracted national attention in a bribery scandal. After the death of U.S. SenatorJames Gordon, the legislature was deadlocked in choosing betweenLeRoy Percy or former GovernorJames K. Vardaman as Gordon's successor. After 58 ballots, on February 28, Bilbo was one of several candidates to break the stalemate by switching his vote to Percy, who won 87–82.[19] Bilbo told agrand jury the next day that he had accepted a $645bribe from L. C. Dulaney but that he had done so as part of a private investigation.[20] The State Senate voted 28–10 to expel him from office, falling one vote short of the34 majority needed.[21] The Senate passed aresolution – which did not require a34 majority – calling him "unfit to sit with honest, upright men in a respectable legislative body."[22]

During his subsequent campaign forlieutenant governor, Bilbo commented onWashington Dorsey Gibbs, a state senator fromYazoo City.[23] Gibbs was insulted and broke his cane over Bilbo's head during an ensuing skirmish. But Bilbo's campaign was successful, and he served as lieutenant governor from 1912 to 1916. One of his first acts as lieutenant governor was to remove from the records the resolution calling him "unfit to sit with honest men."

First governorship

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After serving as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi for four years, Bilbo was electedgovernor in 1915. Cresswell (2006) argues that, in his first term (1916–1920), Bilbo had "the most successful administration" of all the governors who served between 1877 and 1917, putting state finances in order and supportingProgressive measures such as compulsory school attendance, a new charity hospital, and a board of bank examiners.[24]

In his first term, his Progressive program was largely implemented. He was known as "Bilbo the Builder" because he authorized a state highway system, as well as limestone crushing plants, new dormitories at the Old Soldiers' Home, atuberculosis hospital, and his work on eradication of the South Americantick.[citation needed] Several other reforms were carried out during Bilbo’s time in office; affecting areas such as agriculture,[25][26][27] education,[28][29][30] taxation,[31] public health,[32][33][34][35] social welfare[36] and labor rights.[37][38][39][40]

In 1916[41] he pushed through a law eliminating public hangings. TheHaynes Report, a call to national action in response to race riots throughout the summer of 1919, pointed to Bilbo as exemplifying the collective failure of the states to stop or even prosecute thousands of lawless executions over several decades. Before the mob lynching ofJohn Hartfield in Ellisville, Mississippi, on June 26, 1919, according to the report, Bilbo said in a speech:

I am utterly powerless. The State has no troops, and if the civil authorities at Ellisville are helpless, the States are equally so. Furthermore, excitement is at such a high pitch throughout South Mississippi that any armed attempt to interfere would doubtless result in the deaths of hundreds of persons. The negro has confessed, says he is ready to die, and nobody can keep the inevitable from happening.[42]

Hartfield had purportedly entered into a consensual relationship with alocal white woman; when the relationship was discovered, he fled but was tracked and kidnapped by a local mob. Hartfield was held and beaten before ultimately being publicly lynched without trial. Subsequently the mob burned and mutilated his remains, allegedly selling parts of his corpse as souvenirs.[43][44] All this, including thepremeditated murder, was done with the overt support of local authorities and was announced in the local papers the day prior.[45]

Congressional campaign and paternity suit

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Thestate constitution prohibited governors from having successive terms, so Bilbo chose to run for a seat in theU.S. House of Representatives in 1918. During the campaign, a bout ofTexas fever broke out among cattle; Bilbo supported a program to dip cattle in insecticide to kill theticks carrying the fever. Mississippi farmers were generally not happy about the idea, and Bilbo lost the primary toPaul B. Johnson Sr.

Lee M. Russell, then Governor, had served as Bilbo's lieutenant governor and was being sued by his former secretary, who accused him ofbreach of promise and of seducing and impregnating her. She had undergone an abortion that prevented her from having further children. Russell asked Bilbo to convince the woman not to sue. Bilbo was unsuccessful, but Russell's secretary was also unsuccessful in her suit.

JudgeEdwin R. Holmes asked Bilbo to submit documents pertinent to the case. Bilbo refused and was later caught hiding in a barn to avoid a subpoena.[46] Subsequently, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison for contempt of court and served ten days behind bars. He also lost his bid to return to the governorship in 1923.

Second governorship

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In 1927, Bilbo was elected governor again after winning the Democratic primary election over GovernorDennis Murphree, who had succeeded to the top position from the lieutenant governorship on the death of GovernorHenry L. Whitfield. Bilbo criticized Murphree for calling out the Mississippi National Guard to prevent alynching in Jackson, declaring that no black person was worthy of protection by the Guard.[47]

He also tried to move theUniversity of Mississippi fromOxford toJackson, although the idea never came to fruition.[citation needed]

During the1928 presidential election, Bilbo helpedAl Smith (D) from New York to carry the state by a large margin. Conservative, Protestant Democratic voters were considering abandoning Smith because he was Catholic and supported the repeal of prohibition. Bilbo spread the rumor that Republican candidateHerbert Hoover had socialized with a black woman, which helped keep Southern Democrats in Smith's column.

In 1929, Thomas G. Gunter of Benton County, Mississippi, was convicted of the murder of his son-in-law, Marlin Drew, on the testimony of his seven-year-old granddaughter, Dorothy Louise. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

Three months later, after his daughter Pearl gave birth to her fourth child, she confessed that she had killed Marlin during an argument over the paternity of her then-unborn child and requested that her 63-year-old father be pardoned. Pearl said she had coached Dorothy Louise to implicate her father. She added it was always her intention to tell the truth after the birth of her baby and that she could not bear the thought of it beginning its life in prison. Governor Bilbo then granted Gunter a 90-day suspension of sentence as Pearl was bound over for an appearance before the Grand Jury. After the Grand Jury indicted Pearl for murder and perjury, Pearl was arraigned and pled guilty. The judge, however, used his statutory discretion and suspended Pearl's sentence.

When Gunter's 90-day suspension expired in February 1930, the governor denied his application for a pardon and ordered him to return to prison. The governor stated, "Somebody ought to be in the penitentiary all the time for the murder of a sleeping man. If Judge Pegram does not believe Mrs. Drew is guilty enough to serve her term, then the man convicted of her murder will have to serve his term. Husbands ought to have some protection." Gunter, however, refused to return to the penitentiary, and as of February 1931, when an account of the case was written, he and Pearl had fled the state of Mississippi.[48]

Firing the professors

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In 1930, Bilbo convened a meeting of the State Board of Universities and Colleges to approve his plans to dismiss 179 faculty members. Appearing before reporters after the meeting, he announced, "Boys, we've just hung up a new record. We've bounced three college presidents and made three new ones in the record time of two hours. And that's just the beginning of what's going to happen."[49] The presidents of theUniversity of Mississippi ("Ole Miss"), Mississippi A&M (laterMississippi State University), and theMississippi State College for Women were all fired and replaced, respectively, by a realtor, a press agent, and a recent B.A. degree-recipient.[49] The Dean of the Medical School at Ole Miss was replaced by "a man who once had a course in dentistry."[49]

TheAssociation of American Universities and theSouthern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools then suspended recognition of degrees from all four of Mississippi's state colleges. TheAmerican Medical Association voted to cancel the state's college of medicine accreditation.[50]

TheAmerican Association of University Professors (AAUP), meeting in Cleveland, passed a resolution that the remaining Mississippi professors would "be regarded as retired members of the profession" after finding that their dismissals had been made "for political considerations and without concern for the welfare of the students."[51]

During the crisis, Bilbo was burned in effigy by students at Ole Miss, but he was unconcerned about the state's image. He made national headlines by giving an interview while "sitting in a tub of hot water, soap in one hand, washrag in the other, and a cigar in his mouth."[52] The lack of recognition continued until "satisfactory evidence of improved conditions" was provided to the AAUP and the other institutions in 1932.[53]

In his final year of office, Bilbo and the legislature were at a stalemate when he refused to sign their tax bills, and the legislature refused to approve them. At the end of his term, the State of Mississippi was effectively bankrupt. The state treasury had only $1,326.57 in its coffers, and the state was $11.5 million in debt.[47]

Bilbo, whose actions had haltedU.S. Department of Agriculture funding of the agricultural school at Mississippi State, was hired as a "consultant on public relations" for the USDA for a short time. He clipped newspaper articles for a high salary, a reward from SenatorPat Harrison for Bilbo's campaign support. Pundits dubbed him the "Pastemaster General."[46] Soon, Bilbo made plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat held byHubert Stephens.

U.S. Senate

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Senator Theodore G. Bilbo

In 1934, Bilbo defeated Stephens to win a seat in theUnited States Senate. There he spoke against "farmer murderers," "poor-folks haters," "shooters of widows and orphans," "international well-poisoners," "charity hospital destroyers," "spitters on our heroic veterans," "rich enemies of our public schools," "private bankers 'who ought to come out in the open and let folks see what they're doing'," "European debt-cancelers," "unemployment makers," pacifists, Communists, munitions manufacturers, and "skunks who stealGideon Bibles from hotel rooms."[47]

In Washington, Bilbo feuded with Mississippi senior SenatorPat Harrison. Bilbo, whose base was among tenant farmers, hated the upper-class Harrison, who represented the rich planters and merchants. The feud started in 1936 when Harrison nominated Judge Holmes for theFifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bilbo disliked Holmes, dating back to the Russell case, and spoke against him for five hours. Bilbo was the only Senator to vote "no," and Holmes was confirmed.[citation needed]

Later that year, Harrison faced a primary challenge from former GovernorMike Conner. Bilbo supported Conner. Bilbo's former law partner Stewart C. "Sweep Clean" Broom, campaigned for Harrison.[54] Harrison won reelection.

Whenthe Senate majority leader's job opened up in 1937, Harrison ran and faced a close contest with Kentucky'sAlben Barkley. Harrison's campaign manager asked Bilbo to consider voting for Harrison. Bilbo said he would vote for Harrison only if Harrison asked him personally. When asked if he would make the personal appeal to Bilbo, Harrison replied, "Tell the son of a bitch I wouldn't speak to him even if it meant the presidency of the United States."[55] Harrison lost by one vote, 37-to-38, and his reputation as the Senator who wouldn't speak to his home-state colleague remained intact. Bilbo had taken revenge by voting against his fellow Mississippian.

Bilbo's outspoken support ofsegregation andwhite supremacy was controversial in the Senate. Attracted by the ideas ofblack separatists such asMarcus Garvey, Bilbo proposed an amendment to the federal work-relief bill on June 6, 1938, which would have deported twelve million black Americans toLiberia at federal expense to relieve unemployment.[56] Bilbo wrote a book advocating the idea. Garvey praised him in return, saying that Bilbo had "done wonderfully well for the Negro."[57] ButThomas W. Harvey, a seniorUniversal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League leader in the US, distanced himself from Bilbo because of his racist speeches.[58]

Bilbo continued to pursue the idea of repatriating African Americans, with support from black separatists such asMittie Maude Lena Gordon, founder of thePeace Movement of Ethiopia. Gordon collaborated with Bilbo on his proposed legislation,the Greater Liberia Bill, and directed thePeace Movement of Ethiopia in a national grassroots campaign in support.[59] Gordon’s support of Bilbo was motivated by her belief that only "government aid" could attain her foreign policy goal of African-American repatriation to West Africa.[60] Her desire for this foreign policy measure was shaped by her belief in racial separatism, which she shared with Bilbo and which also attracted him to this foreign policy measure.[61] However, his desire for racial separatism was motivated by his white supremacist views, but hers by a perception that African-Americans could never attain desirable social conditions in American society.[62] Moreover, Gordon’s recognition of the power of government officials to help her attain her goal provoked her to use her gender in her communication with Bilbo in order to appeal to his masculinity.[63] On April 24, 1939, Bilbo presented the bill to the Senate. It proposed relocating African Americans toLiberia and further suggested the purchase of 400,000 square miles of West African territory from France and Britain, credited on debt formWorld War I, for the emigrants.[64] The movement was to be funded through federal expenditures, initially suggesting $1 billion, and encouraged support from "any country in Europe that owes us a war debt".[64] Black Americans between the ages of 21 and 50 would receive material aid, including a 50-acre land grant, and financial assistance for one year after reallocating.[58][64] The bill failed to generate enough support and was unsuccessful.

The Democrats assigned Bilbo to the least essential Senate committee on the governance of theDistrict of Columbia to limit his influence. Bilbo, however, used his position to advance his white supremacist views. Bilbo was against giving any vote to district residents, especially as the district's black population was increasing because ofthe Great Migration. After re-election, he advanced to sufficient seniority to chair the committee, 1945–1947. He also served on the Pensions Committee, chairing it 1942–1945.[65]

In his 1940 re-election bid, President Roosevelt praised Bilbo as "a real friend of liberal government."[66] Bilbo, in turn, boasted himself as being "...100 percent for Roosevelt ... and the New Deal."[66]In the 1930s, Bilbo supported Democratic PresidentFranklin Roosevelt'sNew Deal. He became known as the "Redneck Liberal."[67] After 1940, however, he moved steadily to the right regarding foreign policy, economic policy, and the rights of workers and unions. He became isolationist and opposed the draft and preparations for war. He increasingly voted with theConservative Coalition that controlled domestic policy. He switched from a supporter to an opponent of labor unions. He ridiculed blacks, Jews and Italians and helped defeat the renewal of Roosevelt'sFair Employment Practice Committee, which tried to abolish job discrimination based on race or ethnicity. He always favored agriculture, and he owned a large farm himself. As the war began, he complained that Roosevelt's policies were driving up wages and reducing his profits. He supported programs sought by large farmers.[68]

Bilbo revealed his membership in theKu Klux Klan in an August 1946 interview on the radio programMeet the Press, saying, "No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux."[69]

He was a prominent participant in the lengthy southern Democraticfilibuster of theCostigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill before the Senate in 1938, during which he argued, "If you succeed in the passage of this bill, you will open the floodgates of hell in the South. Raping, mobbing, lynching, race riots, and crime will be increased a thousandfold".[70]

Bilbo denouncedRichard Wright's autobiography,Black Boy (1945), on the Senate floor. "Its purpose is to plant the seeds of devilment and trouble-breeding in the days to come in the mind and heart of every American Negro ... It is the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest, most obscene piece of writing that I have ever seen in print."[71]

Bilbo was outspoken in saying that blacks should not be allowed to vote anywhere in the United States, regardless of theFourteenth andFifteenth amendments to theConstitution. BlackWorld War II veterans complained of longstanding disfranchisement in the South, which Mississippi had achieved in 1890 by changes to its constitution related to electoral and voter registration rules, which the other Confederate states and Oklahoma followed with similar changes through 1910, most of which survived court challenges. Bilbo's campaign was accused of provoking violence related to voting.

In 1946, he wrote to General MacArthur, head of the Allied occupation of Japan, that the Japanese should "all be sterilized."[72]

During the 1946 Democratic Senate primary in Mississippi, his last race, Bilbo was the subject of a series of attacks by journalistHodding Carter in his paper, theGreenvilleDelta Democrat-Times. Dismayed that the Supreme Court had ruled thatwhite primaries were unconstitutional, he urged his white supporters to prevent black citizens from voting. At least half of all black citizens were prevented from voting in the primary due to threats of violence.[73] He won that primary against three other opponents with 51.0 percent of the vote. As usual, Bilbo faced no Republican opposition in the 1946 general election. Based on a request by liberal Democratic SenatorGlen H. Taylor ofIdaho, the newly elected Republican majority in the United States Senate refused to seat Bilbo for the term to which he was elected because of his speeches. He was believed to have incited violence against blacks who wanted to vote in the South. In addition, a committee found that he had taken bribes—one contractor gave him a Cadillac for Christmas in 1946.[74] A filibuster by Southerners threatened to delay the seating of all the new senators. It was resolved when a supporter proposed that Bilbo's credentials remain on the table while he returned to Mississippi to seek medical treatment fororal cancer.[75][76]

Death

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Bilbo towards the end of his life

Bilbo retired to his "Dream House" estate inPoplarville, Mississippi, where he wrote and published a summary of his racial ideas entitledTake Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization (Dream House Publishing Company, 1947). His house, which served as the eponym and office of his publishing company, burned down in late fall that year, with the fire consuming many copies of the book.

Bilbo died at sixty-nine inNew Orleans, Louisiana. On his deathbed, he summoned Leon Louis, the editor of the black newspaperNegro South to make a statement:

I am honestly against the social intermingling of Negroes and Whites but I hold nothing personal against the Negroes as a race. They should be proud of their God-given heritage just as I am proud of mine. I believe Negroes should have the right [to indiscriminate use of the ballot], and in Mississippi too—when their main purpose is not to put me out of office and when they won't try to besmirch the reputation of my state.[77]

His funeral at Juniper Grove Cemetery[78] in Poplarville was attended by five thousand mourners, including the governor and the junior senator. A bronze statue of Bilbo was placed in therotunda of theMississippi State Capitol building. It was relocated to another room now frequently used by the Legislative Black Caucus, and some members used the statue's outstretched arm as a coat rack.[79] The statue was moved to storage in 2021.[80]

According to Charles Pope Smith, when he died:

Theodore G. Bilbo was perhaps the most controversial public figure on the national scene....The extremism of his pronouncements on race relations had polarized much of the country....To the vast majority of southern whites Bilbo had become the leading spokesman in the fight to preserve that section's structure of racial segregation from those who wanted to bring about racially equality. To liberal whites and blacks, on the other hand, Bilbo was America's most vicious race-baiter.[81]

In popular culture

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Bilbo was satirized multiple times in popular culture.

See also

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References

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Notes

  1. ^Luthin, Reinhard H. (1954). "Ch. 3: Theodore G. Bilbo: 'The Man' of Mississippi".American Demagogues: Twentieth Century. Beacon Press. pp. 44–76.ASIN B0007DN37C.LCCN 54-8428.OCLC 1098334.
  2. ^"McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/07/2009 | Obama's new home was slow to accept integration". Archived fromthe original on January 22, 2009. RetrievedOctober 26, 2011.
  3. ^"Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo's Legacy of Hate". Common Dreams. July 17, 2007. Archived fromthe original on February 21, 2014. RetrievedAugust 10, 2016.
  4. ^"The Ku Klux Klan | National Geographic Society".education.nationalgeographic.org. RetrievedNovember 20, 2022.
  5. ^Balsamo, Larry Thomas (1967).Theodore G. Bilbo and Mississippi Politics, 1877–1932 (Thesis).hdl:2027/inu.30000076318793.OCLC 755411897.
  6. ^"Long before Charlottesville, 'great replacement theory' found its champion in a racist senator".Washington Post. November 16, 2021.ISSN 0190-8286. RetrievedOctober 17, 2024.
  7. ^Charles Pope Smith,Theodore G. Bilbo's Senatorial Career. The Final Years: 1941–1947 (PhD dissertation, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1983), p. 249.
  8. ^Current Biography Yearbook 1943. H. W. Wilson Company. pp. 47–50.
  9. ^abcRowland, Dunbar (1908).The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 2. Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing Company. pp. 998–999.
  10. ^Cutter, William Richard (1931).American Biography: A New Cyclopedia, Volume 46. New York: American Historical Society. p. 10.
  11. ^Ryan, James Gilbert; Schlup, Leonard C. (2006).Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. p. 51.ISBN 978-0765604408.
  12. ^Morgan, Chester M. (1985).Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 27–28.ISBN 978-0807124321.
  13. ^Hamilton, Charles Granville (1978).Progressive Mississippi. Jackson, MS: Charles G. Hamilton. p. 153.
  14. ^abRowland, Dunbar, ed. (1908)."Sketches of State Senators and Representatives"(PDF).The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing Company. pp. 998–999. RetrievedMarch 20, 2014.
  15. ^Mississippi State Senate (1910).Investigation by the Senate of the State of Mississippi of the Charges of Bribery in the Election of a United States Senator. Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing Company. pp. 93–94.
  16. ^Morgan, Chester M. (1985).Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. p. 28.ISBN 978-0807124321.
  17. ^Chester M. Morgan,Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal, 1985, p. 31.
  18. ^Larry Thomas Balsamo,Theodore G. Bilbo and Mississippi politics, 1877–1932, 1967, p. 36.
  19. ^"Vardaman Defeated,"Fort Wayne News, February 23, 1910, p. 2.
  20. ^"Mississippi Senate Takes Up Bilbo's Bribery Charge,"Indianapolis Star, March 30, 1910, p. 2.
  21. ^"Senator Bilbo Narrowly Escapes From Expulsion,"The Anaconda Standard, April 15, 1910, p. 1.
  22. ^Morgan, Chester.Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal, p. 33.
  23. ^"Washington Dorsey Gibbs", fromThe Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. FromGoogle Books. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  24. ^Cresswell (2006) pp. 212–213.
  25. ^Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi ... 1918, P.10
  26. ^Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi ... 1920, P.27
  27. ^Populism in the White Southern Democratic Party With Reference to Alabama and Mississippi by William Sheward, 2001, P.240
  28. ^Revolt of the rednecks; Mississippi politics, 1876-1925 by Albert D. Kirwan, 1951, P.265
  29. ^STATE LAWS RELATING TO EDUCATION ENACTED IN 1915, 1916 AND 1917, P.245
  30. ^State Laws Relating to Education Enacted in 1918 and 1919. Bulletin, 1920, No. 30 Hood, William R., Comp. Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, P.199
  31. ^Revolt of the rednecks; Mississippi politics, 1876-1925 by Albert D. Kirwan, 1951, P.271
  32. ^Was Mississippi a Part of Progressivism? by Stephen Cresswell / June 2004
  33. ^STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH 1918 COMPLIED BY JASON WATERMAN, LL. B. AND WILLIAM FOWLER, LL. B. , P.166-205
  34. ^State laws and regulations pertaining to public health, 1916 ... c.1, P.139
  35. ^STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH 1918 COMPLIED BY JASON WATERMAN, LL. B. AND WILLIAM FOWLER, LL. B. , P.200-201
  36. ^New Outlook 1931-06-17: Vol 158 Iss 7, P.204
  37. ^American labor legislation review v.10 1920, P.176
  38. ^American labor legislation review v.10 1920, P.188-189
  39. ^American labor legislation review v.8 1918, P.245
  40. ^Labor Legislation of 1916 : Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 213, P.81-82
  41. ^Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History (1917).The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Jackson. pp. 377–.
  42. ^New York Times:"For Action on Race Riot Peril," October 5, 1919, accessed January 20, 2010. This newspaper article includes several paragraphs of editorial analysis followed by Dr. George E. Haynes's report, "summarized at several points."
  43. ^Finnegan, Terence (2013).A Deed So Accursed: Lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881–1940. University of Virginia Press.ISBN 978-0813933849.[page needed]
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Further reading

  • Boulard, Garry, "'The Man' vs. 'The Quisling': Theodore Bilbo, Hodding Carter and the 1946 Democratic Primary,"Journal of Mississippi History,1989, 51, 201–217.
  • Cresswell, Stephen.Rednecks, Redeemers, And Race: Mississippi After Reconstruction, 1877–1917], 2006 – excerpt and text search]
  • Gehrke, Pat J. "The Southern Association of Teachers of Speech v. Senator Theodore Bilbo: Restraint and Indirection as Rhetorical Strategies."Southern Communication Journal 2007, 72, 95–104.
  • Giroux, Vincent A (1981). "The Rise of Theodore G. Bilbo (1908–1932)".Journal of Mississippi History.43 (3):180–209.
  • Green, Adwin Wigfall.The Man Bilbo (LSU Press 1963), scholarly biography;online
  • Kirwan, Albert D.Revolt of the rednecks: Mississippi politics, 1876–1925 (1951)online
  • Morgan, Chester M.Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal, (Louisiana State U. Press, 1985).online ), scholarly biography
  • Smith, Charles Pope (1983).Theodore G. Bilbo's senatorial career the final years: 1941–1947 (Thesis).hdl:2027/inu.30000076399629.
  • Wakefield, Zachary L. (April 26, 2017).'The Skeleton in America's Own Cupboard': Mississippi's Theodore G. Bilbo and the Shaping of Racial Politics, 1946–1948 (Thesis).hdl:10415/5720.

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