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WASHINGTON, December 13 -- The Senate inqquiry into Senator Theodore G. Bilbo's dealings with war contractors recessed in tumult today when former Representative Ross Collins of Mississippi ...
Mississippi’s special election on Nov. 4 to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Theodore G. Bilbo (TIME, Sept. 1) was shaping up last week as a mighty free-for-all. Four candidates had already ...
A statue of white supremacist former Mississippi Gov. Theodore Bilbo has quietly been moved out of sight in the state Capitol — a move praised by Black lawmakers who say he never deserved a ...
Fourteen years ago U. S. District Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes of Mississippi sentenced Theodore Gilmore (“The Man”) Bilbo to 30 days in jail for refusing to testify at the trial of his ...
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was an American politician who twice served as governor of Mississippi and later was elected a U.S. Senator . A filibusterer whose name was a synonym for white supremacy ...
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.
Theodore Bilbo off public display and put it into storage. House clerk Andrew Ketchings spoke to reporters Wednesday, answering a question that has been all the buzz at the state Capitol ...