Vardaman Snopes
Character Key Number:
236
Display Name:
Vardaman Snopes
Sort Name:
Snopes, Vardaman
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Vardaman (and his twin brother Bilbo) are minor figures in The Town and The Hamlet, one of the three (or four, in the second novel) sons of I.O. Snopes and his second wife. Also like Bilbo, he is named for one of the segregationist politicians in modern Mississippi politics, in his case for James K. Vardaman, a very outspoken white supremacist who served as both a Governor of Mississippi and a United States Senator.