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George Edward Allen (1896-1973) —
also known as George E. Allen —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Booneville, Prentiss
County, Miss., February
29, 1896.
Son of Sam P. Allen and Mollie (Plaxico) Allen.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; hotel
business; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1933-38, 1939-40;
resigned 1938, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
District of Columbia, 1936;
Secretary
of Democratic National Committee, 1943; speechwriter for
Pres. Harry
Truman; director, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1946.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Sigma.
Close friend of presidents Roosevelt,
Truman,
and Eisenhower.
Died, following a heart
attack, in the Eisenhower Medical
Center, Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif., April 23,
1973 (age 77 years, 0
days).
Interment somewhere
in Booneville, Miss.
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Maryon Pittman Allen (b. 1925) —
also known as Maryon Pittman; Maryon Pittman Mullins;
Mrs. Jim Allen —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.; Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss., November
30, 1925.
Daughter of John D. Pittman and Tellie (Chism) Pittman.
Democrat. Presidential Elector for Alabama, 1968;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1978; appointed 1978; defeated, 1978;
columnist for the Washington Post newspaper,
1978-81.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, Zonta.
Still living as of 2000.
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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.
Son of James Oliver Bilbo and Beedy (Wallace) Bilbo.
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.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Author of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or
Mongrelization, which advocated deportation of all American
blacks 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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Roscoe Conkling Simmons (d. 1951) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Mississippi.
Republican. Orator,
writer, columnist for the Chicago Tribune; first
African-American columnist for a Chicago daily newspaper;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1928
(alternate), 1932,
1936,
1948;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1938.
African
ancestry.
Died in 1951.
Burial
location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Roscoe
Conkling |
| | | Relatives: Nephew by marriage of Booker
T. Washington. |
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