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Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) —
also known as Theodore G. Bilbo —
of Poplarville, Pearl
River County, Miss.
Born near Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., October
13, 1877.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Mississippi
state senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1912-16; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Mississippi, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1916-20, 1928-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1935-47; died in office 1947.
Baptist.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Author
of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization,
which advocated deportation of all Black Americans to Africa. During
the 1946 campaign, in a radio address, he called on "every
red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to
keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary. And if
you don't know what that means, you are just not up to your
persuasive measures." After he won re-election, the Senate, appalled
at his racist
views and tactics, refused to
seat him, and started an investigation.
Died, of mouth
cancer, in a hospital
at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
21, 1947 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Juniper
Grove Cemetery, Near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.
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George Calhoon —
of Kentucky; Madison
County, Miss.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1836.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Solomon Saladin Calhoon (1838-1908) —
also known as S. S. Calhoon —
of Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss.; Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.; Canton, Madison
County, Miss.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born near Brandenburg, Meade
County, Ky., January
2, 1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to Gov. William
McWillie, 1857; newspaper
editor; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
circuit judge in Mississippi, 1876-82; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Mississippi, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1890; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1900-08; appointed 1900; died in
office 1908.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish and German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died November
10, 1908 (age 70 years, 313
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John H. Cook (b. 1874) —
of Clarksdale, Coahoma
County, Miss.
Born in Jasper
County, Miss., February
27, 1874.
School
teacher; postmaster;
lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Mississippi; Republican
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1922; U.S. Marshal, 1922-25; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, 1925-29;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1928.
Methodist.
German,
English,
and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Marshall Cook and Susan (Mounger) Cook; married 1900 to Annie
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Samuel Sam Dale (1772-1841) —
also known as Sam Dale —
of Alabama; Mississippi.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., 1772.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1836.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died near Daleville, Lauderdale
County, Miss., May 24,
1841 (age about 68
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Lauderdale County, Miss.;
reinterment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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William McWillie (1795-1869) —
of Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C.; Madison
County, Miss.
Born in Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C., November
17, 1795.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
South
Carolina state senate, 1836-40; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 3rd District, 1849-51; defeated,
1850; Governor of
Mississippi, 1857-59.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Camden, Madison
County, Miss., March 3,
1869 (age 73 years, 106
days).
Interment at Kirwood
Cemetery, Camden, Miss.
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