Underwood, Oscar W. (Oscar Wilder), 1862-1929
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United States senator from Alabama.
House of Representative Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader. Presidential candidate 1912 and 1923; author of Underwood Tariff Bill; and member Washington Naval Conference.
Oscar Wilder Underwood was born in Louisville, Ky., on 1862 May 6, to Eugene and Frederica Virginia Wilder. In 1864 the family moved to St. Paul, Minn. By 1876 the family had moved back to Louisville. Oscar was sent to Rugby preparatory school in Louisville. He attended the University of Va. leaving in 1884 without a degree.
After practising law for two months in St. Paul, Underwood moved to Birmingham where his half-brother, William T. Underwood, had substantial business connections. Underwood was admitted to the Ala. bar by 1884 Sept., and he joined James J. Garrett and Ellis Phelan, although the latter soon retired, and the firm became Garrett and Underwood.
On 1885 Oct. 8 Underwood married Eugenia Massie. They had two sons, John Lewis and Oscar Wilder, Jr. Underwood engaged in a variety of businesses in Birmingham. Although his law practise was primarily with civil cases, he also handled some work for corporations such as the First National Bank (Ala.) and the DeBardeleben Coal and Iron Company (Ala.).
In 1894, he was elected Democrat member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress from the Ninth District (Birmingham). However, Truman H. Aldrich successfully contested the election, and Underwood had to wait until 1896. He was returned to the House of Representatives where he remained until 1914 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate. During his second term in the House of Representatives, widower Underwood married Bertha Woodward. Reelected to the Senate in 1920, Underwood declined to run again in 1927.
During his political career he was the Democratic floor leader of the House of Representatives, 1911-1915; he was a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1912 and 1924; and he was the floor leader of his party in the Senate from 1921-1923.
He retired to his estate, Woodlawn, in Fairfax Co., Va. where he died on 1929 Jan. 25.
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