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After notorious Mississippi [[segregation]]ist senator and former Klansman [[Theodore Bilbo]] faced calls to be denied his Senate seat after intimidating and inciting violence against black voters in his 1946 re-election, Hickenlooper joined Republican Style Bridges of New Hampshire in working to halt Bilbo,<ref name="The First Hickenlooper"/><ref>[https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/electing-appointing-senators/contested-senate-elections/126Theodore_Bilbo.htm The Election Case of Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi (1947)]. ''senate.gov''. Retrieved February 18, 2021.</ref> as Republicans had just gained a bare Senate majority. As gridlock ensued with Southern senators starting filibusters, Minority Leader [[Alben Barkley]] broke the impasse in announcing that Bilbo would return to Mississippi for surgery. The racist demagogue never recovered to return to Congress, dying in 1947.

After notorious Mississippi [[segregation]]ist senator and former Klansman [[Theodore Bilbo]] faced calls to be denied his Senate seat after intimidating and inciting violence against black voters in his 1946 re-election, Hickenlooper joined Republican Style Bridges of New Hampshire in working to halt Bilbo,<ref name="The First Hickenlooper"/><ref>[https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/electing-appointing-senators/contested-senate-elections/126Theodore_Bilbo.htm The Election Case of Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi (1947)]. ''senate.gov''. Retrieved February 18, 2021.</ref> as Republicans had just gained a bare Senate majority. As gridlock ensued with Southern senators starting filibusters, Minority Leader [[Alben Barkley]] broke the impasse in announcing that Bilbo would return to Mississippi for surgery. The racist demagogue never recovered to return to Congress, dying in 1947.

Like [[Barry Goldwater]], Hickenlooper opposed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] over concerns of increasing federal bureaucracy despite [[liberal deceit|deceitful left-wing]] attempts to highlight the conservative Republican opposition to the bill as "racist". While he voted against the final passage of the landmark legislation,<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 HR. 7152. PASSAGE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved February 18, 2021.</ref> he voted in favor of invoking cloture to end the filibuster led by Southern Democrats<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s302 HR. 7152. MANSFIELD DIRKSEN MOTION THAT THE SENATE INVOKE CLOTURE ON THE SOUTHERN FILIBUSTER.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved February 2021.</ref> at the urging of Republican [[Senate Minority Leader]] [[Everett Dirksen]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/01/archives/hickenlooper-opposes-closure-till-rights-bill-is-modified-more.html Hickenlooper Opposes Closure Till Rights Bill Is Modified More]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved February 18, 2021.</ref>

Like [[Barry Goldwater]] and [[Norris Cotton]], Hickenlooper opposed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] over concerns of increasing federal bureaucracy despite [[liberal deceit|deceitful left-wing]] attempts to highlight the conservative Republican opposition to the bill as "racist". While he voted against the final passage of the landmark legislation,<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 HR. 7152. PASSAGE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved February 18, 2021.</ref> he voted in favor of invoking cloture to end the filibuster led by Southern Democrats<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s302 HR. 7152. MANSFIELD DIRKSEN MOTION THAT THE SENATE INVOKE CLOTURE ON THE SOUTHERN FILIBUSTER.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved February 2021.</ref> at the urging of Republican [[Senate Minority Leader]] [[Everett Dirksen]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/01/archives/hickenlooper-opposes-closure-till-rights-bill-is-modified-more.html Hickenlooper Opposes Closure Till Rights Bill Is Modified More]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved February 18, 2021.</ref>

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