Theodore Bilbo

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-03-09 09:06
Character Key Number: 
3415
Display Name: 
Theodore Bilbo
Sort Name: 
Bilbo, Theodore
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

The man whom Ratliff, facetiously, refers to as "our own Bilbo in Mississippi" in The Mansion was a racist and an outspoken supporter of the Jim Crow system of segregation. He was elected twice as Governor of Mississippi and later three times as a U.S. Senator (179). Two rural white characters in Yoknapatawpha (Bilbo Snopes and Bilbo Gowrie) were named after him.

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