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...Happy Time. In Knoxville, Tenn., Criminal Court Judge J. Fred Bibb refused to hear any more criminal cases during the holiday season, explained: "Jurors are full of the Christmas spirit, and are inclined to be lenient...
...served for two days in 1922; Arkansas' Democrat Hattie Caraway, who was appointed to succeed her husband in 1931, later was elected three times; Louisiana's Democrat Rose Long, who served a year after her husband, Huey, was assassinated in 1935; Alabama's Democrat Dixie Bibb Graves, appointed for five months in 1937; South Dakota's Republican (Miss) Gladys Pyle, elected for two months in 1938; South Dakota's Republican Vera C. Bushfield, who succeeded her husband for three months in 1948; Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, elected in 1948 and the only...
...appointments, Stratton (who handles all patronage personally) came up with a 200-volt shock for those who considered him reactionary: he appointed a Negro, Chicago's able Lawyer-Editor Joseph Bibb, as director of public safety, one of the state's most sensitive and important positions. Bibb is the first Negro to occupy a cabinet post in any state since Reconstruction days in the South (TIME, Dec. 29). Said Stratton: "If Bibb makes a success of his job, as I'm convinced he will, it's bound to contribute to better understanding between the races...
This bold move in a state that contains areas of high racial tension (e.g., Chicago, Cicero) may win back to the Republican Party many Illinois Negroes, who continued to vote Democratic through the 1952 election. Bibb will be the first Negro to occupy a cabinet post in any state since Reconstruction days in the South...
Though a longtime Republican, 57-year-old Joseph Bibb is no professional politician. Born in Montgomery, Ala. where his father taught Hebrew and Greek at a theological school, he is a practicing lawyer (Yale Law School, 1918) and managing editor of the Pittsburgh Courier's Chicago edition. As safety director, Bibb will boss four state penitentiaries, the 500-man state police force, all state parole agents and the Division of Criminal Investigation and Identification...