Bankhead, John Hollis, 1872-1946

found: NUCMC data from Birmingham Public Library for Ramsay, E. Papers, 1886-1953(J.H. Bankhead; correspondent)

found: WwWA, 1943-1950(Bankhead, John Hollis; U.S. Senator from Ala.; b. July 8, 1872; d. June 12, 1946)

found: Cooperative agricultural extension work, 1937:p. 1 (Mr. Bankhead, from the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry)

found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Sept. 22, 2009(Bankhead, John Hollis II (son of John Hollis Bankhead); a Senator from Ala.; b. July 8, 1872; served in U.S. Senate, 1931-1946; d. June 12, 1946)

found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. website, September 21, 2016(Bankhead, John Hollis II, (son of John Hollis Bankhead, brother of William Brockman Bankhead, and father of Walter Will Bankhead), a Senator from Alabama; born on a farm near Old Moscow, Lamar County, Ala., July 8, 1872; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1891 and from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1893; admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Jasper, Ala.; served in the Alabama National Guard with rank of major 1901-1903; member of the State house of representatives 1904-1905; president of the Bankhead Coal Co. 1911-1925; trustee of the University of Alabama 1917-1919 and 1931-1946; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and 1942 and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in the United States Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., on June 12, 1946; chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.)