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Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore
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| (1877–1947)
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| US senator, born in Poplarville, Mississippi, USA. He served as the Democratic governor of Mississippi (1916–20, 1928–32). Popular among the state's poor rural whites, he was a supporter of economic populism and white supremacy. He served in the US Senate (1935–47), where he was a staunch supporter of the New Deal as well as an outspoken racist. He became notorious for his filibustering against legislation aiding African-Americans, instead calling for their deportation to Africa. |
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