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Bilbo privately conferred to Southern Democratic colleagues Clyde R. Hoey and [[Claude Pepper]], who presented a compromise solution of delaying his seating while ensuring appropriated funds to pay for his throat cancer surgery.<ref name=fleegler,pp.24-26/> Due to ultimately not returning to the Senate, the anti-Bilbo forces cheered. Prior to dying of oral cancer at the age of 69 following decades of spouting hatred, bigotry, and inciting violence, the last weeks of Bilbo's life were spent writing a racist screed, ''Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization'', where he promoted fearmongering of "race-mixing" and called for the repatriation of black Americans to [[West Africa]]. (a relocation bill he sponsored in the Senate in 1938 had failed) Never having repudiated his lifelong legacy of white supremacist hatred, Bilbo remained a figurehead for segregationists in the South long after his death.

Bilbo privately conferred to Southern Democratic colleagues Clyde R. Hoey and [[Claude Pepper]], who presented a compromise solution of delaying his seating while ensuring appropriated funds to pay for his throat cancer surgery.<ref name=fleegler,pp.24-26/> Due to ultimately not returning to the Senate, the anti-Bilbo forces cheered. Prior to dying of oral cancer at the age of 69 following decades of spouting hatred, bigotry, and inciting violence, the last weeks of Bilbo's life were spent writing a racist screed, ''Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization'', where he promoted fearmongering of "race-mixing" and called for the repatriation of black Americans to [[West Africa]]. (a relocation bill he sponsored in the Senate in 1938 had failed) Never having repudiated his lifelong legacy of white supremacist hatred, Bilbo remained a figurehead for segregationists in the South long after his death.

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