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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaJohn Hollis II BANKHEAD
(1872-1946)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1946Party: DemocratBANKHEAD, John Hollis II,
(son of John Hollis Bankhead, brother of William Brockman Bankhead,
and father of Walter Will Bankhead), a Senator from Alabama; born
on a farm near Old Moscow, Lamar County, Ala., July 8, 1872;
attended the public schools; graduated from the University of
Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1891 and from the law department of
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1893; admitted to the
bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Jasper, Ala.; served in the
Alabama National Guard with rank of major 1901-1903; member of the
State house of representatives 1904-1905; president of the Bankhead
Coal Co. 1911-1925; trustee of the University of Alabama 1917-1919
and 1931-1946; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1930; reelected in 1936 and 1942 and served from March 4, 1931,
until his death in the United States Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md.,
on June 12, 1946; chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
(Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); interment in Oak
Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Key, Jack B. “John
H. Bankhead, Jr. of Alabama: The Conservative as Reformer.”
Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1966; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Services for John Hollis Bankhead, 2d. 80th Cong.,
1st sess., 1947. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1949.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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