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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaBANKHEAD, William Brockman
(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.
Bankhead, Tallulah. “My Life with Father.” Coronet
31 (November 1951): 56-60.
Heacock, Walter J. “William B. Bankhead and the New Deal.” Journal of Southern History
21 (August 1955): 347-59.
———. “William Brockman Bankhead: A Biography.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1953.
Johnson, Evans C. “John H. Bankhead 2d: Advocate of Cotton.” Alabama Review
41 (January 1988): 30-58.
Van Hollen, Christopher. “The House Rules Committee, 1933-1951: Agent of Party and Agent of Opposition.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1951.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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