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Oil on canvas, Howard Chandler Christy, 1937, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
BANKHEAD, William Brockman, (son of John Hollis Bankhead, brother of John Hollis Bankhead 2d, and uncle of Walter Will Bankhead),
a Representative from Alabama; born in Moscow, Lamar County, Ala.,
April 12, 1874; attended the country schools; was graduated from the University
of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1893 and from the Georgetown University Law School at
Washington, D.C., in 1895; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Huntsville, Ala.; member of the State house of representatives in
1900 and 1901; city attorney of Huntsville, 1898-1902; moved to Jasper, Walker
County, Ala., in 1905 and continued the practice of law; solicitor of the
fourteenth judicial circuit of Alabama, 1910-1914; unsuccessful candidate for
nomination to the Sixty-fourth Congress in 1914; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-September
15, 1940); chairman, Committee on Rules (Seventy-third Congress); majority
leader (Seventy-fourth Congress), Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Seventy-fourth to Seventy-sixth Congresses); delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1940; died on September 15, 1940, in Washington, D.C.;
funeral services were held in the Hall of the House of Representatives;
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.
BibliographyHeacock, Walter J. William Brockman Bankhead:
A Biography. Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1952.
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