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[[File:Bilbo.png|right|250px|thumb|Theodore Bilbo]]
{{Officeholder
|name=Theodore Bilbo
|image=Bilbo.png
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=Lillian Selita Herrington (died 1899)<br>Lida Ruth Gaddy
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Mississippi
|terms=January 3, 1935 – August 21, 1947
|preceded=Hubert D. Stephens
|status=f
|succeeded=[[John Stennis]]
}}
{{Officeholder/governor
|state=Mississippi
|lieutenant=Cayton Adam
|terms=January 17, 1928 – January 19, 1932
|preceded=Dennis Murphree
|former=y
|succeeded=Martin Sennett Connor
}}
{{Officeholder/governor
|state=Mississippi
|lieutenant=Lee M. Russell
|terms=January 18, 1916 – January 20, 1920
|preceded=Earl Brewer
|former=y
|succeeded=Lee M. Russell
}}
{{Officeholder/lieutenant governor
|state=Mississippi
|governor=Earl Brewer
|terms=January 16, 1912 – January 18, 1916
|preceded=Luther Manship
|former=y
|succeeded=Lee Russell
}}
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=State Senator from [[Mississippi]]
|terms=1908 – 1912
|preceded=???
|former=y
|succeeded=???
}}
}}
'''Theodore Gilmore Bilbo''' (October 13, 1877 – August 21, 1947) was a [[Democrat]] [[Senator]] and [[Klansman]] from [[Mississippi]]. Bilbo served as a governor of Mississippi from 1916 to 1920 and 1928 to 1932, and as a U.S. senator from 1935 to 1947. A towering figure among [[white supremacist]] and [[segregation]]ist politicians, Bilbo praised [[Nazi]] racial philosophy and was famous for his extreme and inflammatory rhetoric. In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging [[Black]] men to rape white women.
'''Theodore Gilmore Bilbo''' (October 13, 1877 – August 21, 1947) was a [[Democrat]] [[Senator]] and [[Klansman]] from [[Mississippi]]. Bilbo served as a governor of Mississippi from 1916 to 1920 and 1928 to 1932, and as a U.S. senator from 1935 to 1947. A towering figure among [[white supremacist]] and [[segregation]]ist politicians, Bilbo praised [[Nazi]] racial philosophy and was famous for his extreme and inflammatory rhetoric. In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging [[Black]] men to rape white women.
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