Education
Bilbo was born to a poor family in Juniper Grove, a hamlet in Pearl River County, Mississippi, the son of Obedience (née Wallis) and James Oliver Bilbo. He attended college at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, and law school at Vanderbilt University, although he did not graduate from either institution. Later, Bilbo worked as a teacher. In 1908, he was admitted to the bar in Tennessee and began a law practice in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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