Hubert Durrett Stephens was an American

United States

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 politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Mississippi

Mississippi

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 from 1923 until 1935.

Stephens was born in New Albany, Mississippi

New Albany, Mississippi

New Albany is a city in Union County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 8,526 at the 2010 census. New Albany is the county seat of Union County. New Albany was first organized in 1840 at the site of a grist mill and saw mill on the Tallahatchie River and was developed as a river port...

. He graduated from the University of Mississippi

University of Mississippi

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 law school

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 and soon began to practice law in New Albany.

Stephens served in the U.S. House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 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 1934, he was defeated by Theodore Bilbo

Theodore G. Bilbo

Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was an American politician. Bilbo, a Democrat, twice served as governor of Mississippi and later was elected a U.S. Senator . A master of filibuster and scathing rhetoric, a rough-and-tumble fighter in debate, he made his name a synonym for white supremacy...

 in the primary

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Stephens was the director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932, Act of January 22, 1932, c. 8, 47 Stat. 5, during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. It was modeled after the War Finance Corporation...

 from 1935 to 1936. After that, he practiced law in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 before retiring to his Mississippi farm

Farm

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 in 1941.

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