Hubert Durrett Stephens (July 2, 1875March 14, 1946) was an American politician who served as a Democratic

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from

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from 1923 until 1935. Stephens was born in

New Albany, Mississippi New Albany is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Mississippi, United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, the population was 7,626. History New Albany was first organized in 1840 at the site of a grist mill and saw mil ...

. He graduated from the

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law school and soon began to practice law in New Albany. Stephens served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1921; in his final term he did not run for re-election, but he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1922. In 1925 Stephens unsuccessfully attempted to intervene in the Lynching of L. Q. Ivy, a Black man accused of rape in New Albany. In 1934, he was defeated by

Theodore Bilbo Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (October 13, 1877 – August 21, 1947) was an American politician who twice served as governor of Mississippi (1916–1920, 1928–1932) and later was elected a U.S. Senator (1935–1947). A lifelong Democrat, he was a fil ...

in the primary. Stephens was the director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from 1935 to 1936. After that, he practiced law in

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before retiring to his Mississippi

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in 1941.

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* 1875 births 1946 deaths People from New Albany, Mississippi Methodists from Mississippi Democratic Party United States senators from Mississippi Mississippi lawyers Reconstruction Finance Corporation University of Mississippi alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi {{Mississippi-politician-stub

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