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'''William Brockman Bankhead''' (1874 - 1940) was the son of John Hollis Bankhead, brother of John Hollis Bankhead 2d, and uncle of Walter Will Bankhead and a Representative from [[Alabama]]. Bankhead was born in Moscow, Lamar County, Alabama on 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, Alabama]].
* 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

Bankhead died on September 15, 1940, in Washington, D.C.; funeral services were held in the Hall of the House of Representatives.  His was interned in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.

==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

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[[Category:Speakers of the United States House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Alabama]]