BANKHEAD, William Brockman (1874-1940)
Democrat of Alabama 
7th congressional district
Served in House 1917-1939
Biography
Representative from Alabama; born in Moscow, Lamar County, Ala., April 12, 1874; attended the country schools; 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 Alabama state house of representatives, 1900-1901; city attorney of Huntsville, Ala., 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); chair, Committee on Rules (Seventy-third Congress); majority leader (Seventy-fourth Congress), Speaker of the House (Seventy-fourth through 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.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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