William Brockman Bankhead

William Brockman Bankhead (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
• 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.

References

• http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp