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m from members of his staff prosecutors called 55 witnesses to testify against traficant and submitted as evidence bank records showing large cash deposits they also produced a briefcase stuffed with 24 500 in cash that one witness said the congressman asked him to hide former traficant staff member allen sinclair testified that he was hired under an agreement that he give his boss 2 500 in cash each month in addition traficant had office workers bale hay fix farm equipment and build a corral at his farm a few months later his long run in the house of representatives came to an abrupt end in a near unanimous vote a grim and subdued house tonight expelled representative james a traficant jr a maverick ohio democrat who was convicted in april on 10 counts of bribery racketeering and corruption known for his bombastic sometimes erratic one minute speeches on the house floor mr traficant had promised the performance of his life when the house moved against him when i walk on the floor for the final execution i ll wear a denim suit he proclaimed recently i ll walk in there like willie nelson john wayne will smith men in black james brown maybe do a michael jackson moon walk for all his threats to be unruly mr traficant was subdued arguing in a rambling defense that one of the witnesses against him had lied through his teeth and that the government had been out to get him and had pressured witnesses to turn on him i ll go to jail he thundered waving his arms but i ll be damned that i ll be pressured by a government that pressured these witnesses to death alison mitchell new york times july 25 2002 he did go to jail and when he did we found out something else about traficant ex congressman james a traficant jr s famous mop top is a rug some people thought the hair was too unruly to be a toupee but sheriff drew alexander said the newly sentenced traficant had to remove the hairpiece this week during a routine search while being booked into the summit county jail cbs news oct 29 2002 in jail he again ran for congress running as an independent in 2002 he lost to a former aide tim ryan he would go on to serve seven years of an eight year jail sentence he was released in 2009 after his release ap reporter meghan barr caught up with him in boardman ohio may 2 2010 jim traficant is back from prison and people are taking notice the hero of the tea party movement is seated in a corner booth at his favorite diner his famous toupee sticking out above the wooden slats like a warning that mop of hair possibly more famous than the man himself tells the regulars bent over coffee mugs all they need to know jimbo has entered the building this is the man who once compared the u s congress to a bunch of prostitutes then publicly apologized to prostitutes for comparing them to the u s congress this is the man who while defending himself against a house ethics committee told lawmakers that he would like to kick them in the crotch this is a man who according to his friends claims that his ancestors are from transylvania making him a distant relation of dracula above all though this is the man who will decide come monday whether he will yet again make a run for congress this time as a felon who was convicted of racketeering and bribery and as an independent proudly bearing the mantle of the tea party the notion of a convicted felon running for congress might seem slightly preposterous but here in the gloomy ruins of shuttered steel mills the name traficant reminds people of better times traficant did make another run for his old congressional seat in 2010 he again lost to ryan getting 16 of the vote traficant died on sept 23 2014 a few days after an accident on his farm near youngstown a tractor he was driving flipped over and landed on top of him it was later determined he died from asphyxiation it is the people with connections to youngstown who best put his life and career in context marilyn geewax of npr sept 27 2014 wrote few outside of youngstown will mourn his passing many will laugh at the memory of his oft used command on the house floor beam me up mr speaker the bad toupee the denim suit with the high water pants the bombastic style he was like a profane cartoon character when he was in congress and i was a reporter on the hill people would laugh if i mentioned i was from youngstown my parents congressman was a punch line in fact he was much worse than that he was a crook writing for politico sept 27 2014 vince guerrieri wrote my tales about a judge who got disbarred ran for mayor and won a prosecutor who was the subject of an attempted assassination and his predecessor who did time for corruption a group of gangsters who incorporated their own municipality for the express purposes of hiding a brazenly operated illegal gambling casino from local law enforcement were too far fetched to anyone who d never lived in the steel town on the ohio pennsylvania border but james a traficant jr a man who once had his salary garnished by the internal revenue service for failing to report a bribe by organized crime figures on his income tax was the living embodiment of every yarn spun about the region and its residents he was the congressman you d call from central casting if quentin tarantino was directing the movie so who was the one congressman who voted no on the resolution to ditch traficant the one in the 420 1 final tally it was gary a condit of california he had already lost in a primary one month earlier after disclosures that he had an affair with a young intern who gone missing and was later found to have been murdered posted in history tagged congress corruption history james traficant tea party youngstown 3 comments the congressional hall of shame theodore g bilbo posted on june 21 2026 by ken dowell over its 250 year history the united states congress has housed an untold number of racists there are still some in place today but few if any compare to the vileness of mississippi senator theodore g bilbo bilbo served two terms as governor of mississippi he was elected to the senate in 1934 re elected in 1940 and again in 1946 but he never served his third term his seating was held up as the senate investigated charges of election interference and inappropriate payments from contractors before that inquiry was completed bilbao succumbed to cancer in 1947 his career long advocacy of white supremacy included membership in the kkk in the 1920 s authoring a book titled take your choice separation or mongrelization he once criticized the mississippi national guard for preventing a lynching 1927 he proposed a bill in the senate to deport 12 million black americans to liberia he filibustered to try to prevent the senate from passing an anti lynching bill he encouraged white mississippians to prevent blacks from voting his prejudices went beyond just blacks he once argued in a lettter to general macarthur after world war ii that all japanese should be sterilized the new york times ran this united press story on july 23 1945 representative vito marcantonio of new york demanded today that senator theodore g bilbo of mississippi apologize to a brooklyn woman for calling her my dear dago but bilbo s reply was hell no in fact his bigotry was so legendary that pete seeger sang a song about it there were a number of other unethical checkpoints in bilbo s career in 1910 as a state senator he admitted to taking a bribe to change his vote on choosing a candidate to fill a vacant senate seat the mississippi senate voted 28 10 to expel him one vote shy of the 3 4ths needed in 1923 he made the announcement that he was running for governor from his jail cell where he was doing time for contempt of court for refusing to testify in a case involving a sex scandal with the current governor he was accused of taking bribes from contractors one of which was a christmas present of a cadillac this election year incident described below in the charlotte news june 26 1946 proved to be the flashpoint that raised doubts about whether bilbo should remain in the senate a few days ago a negro veteran attempted to exercise his franchise by registering for the democratic primary in that state he was according to his uncontested story not only refused but beaten the incident has served as the springboard for one of the most remarkable statements yet to come out of a political campaign distinguished for its demagogy senator theodore bilbo has 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 if you don t know what that means you are just not up on your persuasive measures the senator s statement was broadcast freedom house an organization founded by eleanor roosevelt and wendell wilkie was quick to call for bilbo s censure in an open letter to senator alben w barkley majority leader the board of directors of freedom house urged yesterday that the united states senate when it reconvenes should entertain a resolution censuring senator theodore g bilbo of mississippi so that all americans may be assured that the united states senate disassociates itself from the shameful acts of one of its members the letter condemned the insulting letters which he has written to loyal americans who differ with him and above all his open scorn of american public opinion and human decency it suggested that the resolution of censure should be a prelude to removal proceedings if senator bilbo should persist in using his high office to undermine the american way of life new york times aug 9 1945 there were even some folks in mississippi who wanted to see bilbo unseated over 50 negro and white qualified voters of mississippi including editors educators ministers and veterans filed today a sworn complaint in washington d c with a special committee to investigate campaign matters charging that senator bilbo s election in the democratic primary for united states senator was tainted with fraud duress and illegality and acheived by force and violence and the use of criminal extra legal and illegal tactics and asking that he be denied his seat in the senate for the new term commencing next january the original was filed with the special committee to investigate senatorial campaign expenditures and a duplicate was filed with the senate privileges and elections committee the complaint charges that senator bilbo conducted an aggressive and ruthless campaign the black dispatch oklahoma city sept 28 1946 on jan 1 1947 the ap reported senator hocy d nc said today an agreement had been reached between theodore g bilbo d and senate leaders on a compromise which would grant the mississippian his senatorial salary but deny him his seat temporarily hocy told a reporter that republican and democratic leaders have agreed and bilbo has acquiesced this procedure which would permit 35 other senators elect to take their oaths while bilbo s case remains in abeyance the agreement would permit bilbo to appear in the senate in his own defense when charges are heard against him that he profited by dealing with war contractors and prevented negroes from voting in the mississippi primary but the mississippian would be denied the oath of office and could not vote on his own case while the charges are pending by that time bilbo s cancer had already been diagnosed he remained defiant debt free and author of a new book setting forth the creed of white supremacy so dear to his heart senator theodore g bilbo is now resting at his dream house in poplarville with assurances pouring in that his popularity in this state has increased immeasurably senator bilbo has served notice publicly that nothing will deter him from demanding his senate seat immediately after surgeons have pronounced him fit for duty however there seems little doubt that at least another three months must elapse before he receives a medical mandate the attitude of mississippians in general was well illustrated this week when the state legislature meeting in extraordinary session received resolutions in both branches calling upon the united states senate to seat mr bilbo in recognition of the constitutional right of the magnolia state to have national representation of its own choosing new york times march 9 1947 the fit for duty pronouncement never came he passed away on aug 21 1947 here are two very different eulogies the first is from the jackson clarion ledger aug 23 1947 theodore g bilbo twice governor of mississippi by the votes of the people three times elected to the united states senate by mississippi democrats stormy petrel of mississippi politics for 35 years one of the most colorful figures in the state s history last perhaps of the factional chieftains a man of many enemies and many weaknesses but who was able to hold the loyalty of thousands of mississippians of two generations is dead the manner in which theodore g bilbo through the last year of his life fought the deadly cancer fought and endured pain and mutilation fought and planned to keep on fighting those who barred him without trial from the senate seat to which mississippi democrats elected him won for him the respect and admiration of thousands of mississippians who had never been numbered among his personal friends or political supporters his enemies including groups which are the enemies of the social and political institutions cherished by mississippi democrats attacked without pity moved to bar him from his senate seat even as he was having to summon strength and courage to fight the deadly cancer which had appeared in his mouth and throat his answer was a challenge the northwest enterprise seattle aug 27 1947 had a different take the 70 years of his lifetime have been 70 years of obvious shameful degeneracy for the south it is fitting that death should remove him like an obscene and putrid blot from the face of the south at the very time it appears to be trying to shake itself free of degenerating influences and rise to the level of the rest of the nation no man could tell the lies could wallow in the profanity could intoxicate and excite himself with the obscenities theodore bilbo directed against the negro race unless he were a degenerate we submit that theodore bilbo s hatred of negroes was linked with the rest of his vulgar nature his red galluses and red neckties his gaudy diamond studded stickpins to form a personality repulsive to decency unhealthy unclean and paranoic it should be to the everlasting shame of the nation that it tolerated an unmanageable obscene mad man in one of the highest offices of the land the last word on bilbo would fall to a state house clerk in jackson mystery solved the top administrator in the mississippi house says he unilaterally made the decision to take a statue of a racist former gov theodore bilbo off public display and put it into storage house clerk andrew ketchings spoke to reporters wednesday answering a question that 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