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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Alabama / USWilliam Brockman BANKHEAD
(1874-1940)
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.
Bibliography
Heacock, Walter J. “William Brockman Bankhead: A
Biography.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1952.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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