Favorable or Unfavorable #50: Theodore Bilbo

[vcczar]

Theodore Bilbo (MS-D) is a pretty awful person. He was economically progressive until the 1940s, when he went fully conservative, as many Southern Dems started to do after the New Deal, which they tended to openly support in the 1930s. Bilbo was also notable for verbal sparring with his fellow MS-D senator, Pat Harrison. It was a class fight. Harrison was upper class and Bilbo wasn't. 

I should elaborate on the 1928 action. The Deep South, outside Southern Louisiana, was very anti-Catholic. Bilbo was a party Democrat, and wanted Al Smith, a Catholic, to win, so he tried to give the Southern voters a person that was less appealing to them. 

Finally, Bilbo was 5'2"

His actions:

Bilbo, Theodore	1927	Criticized the use of the national guard in trying to prevent lynchings
Bilbo, Theodore	1928	Spreads rumor that Hoover socializes with a black woman to convince MS to vote for Catholic Al Smith
Bilbo, Theodore	1930	As Gov of MS enacts first sales tax of any US state
Bilbo, Theodore	1938	Proposes amd't to work-relief bill that would have deported 12 mil black Americans to Liberia
Bilbo, Theodore	1938	Filibustered the Costigan-Wagner antilynching bill
Bilbo, Theodore	1939	Proposes bill to purchase land from European powers in Africa to deport black Americans to Africa
Bilbo, Theodore	1945	urges moves to keep blacks from voting
Bilbo, Theodore	1946	Advises General MacArthur to sterilize the Japanese
Bilbo, Theodore	1946	Publicly reveals that he's a member of the KKK on Meet the Press

[OrangeP47]

7 minutes ago, vcczar said:

Finally, Bilbo was 5'2"

Taller than Frodo.