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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaBANKHEAD, John Hollis II
(1872—1946)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1946
Party:
Democrat
BANKHEAD, 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.
Bowers, Thomas A. “The Bankhead Bill: How a Threatened Press Subsidy Was Defeated.” Journalism Quarterly
53 (Spring 1976): 21-27.
Key, Jack Brien. “John H. Bankhead, Jr. of Alabama: The Conservative as Reformer.” Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1966.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of John Hollis Bankhead 2d, Late a Senator from Alabama
. 80th Cong., 1st sess., 1947. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1949.
Watson, Elbert L. “John Hollis Bankhead, Jr.” In Alabama United States Senators
, pp. 124-26. Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers, 1982.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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