Graves, Dixie Bibb, 1882-1965
Dixie Bibb Graves (July 26, 1882 – January 21, 1965) was a First Lady from the State of Alabama and the first woman to serve as a United States Senator from Alabama. She was appointed to the Senate by her husband, Governor Bibb Graves, when Senator Hugo Black resigned his to take his place on the U.S. Supreme Court in August 1937. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Born on her family's plantation outside of Montgomery, Alabama, Dixie Bibb attended the local public schools. In 1900, at the age of 18, she married state legislator David Bibb Graves, who was also her first cousin. Graves became a civic leader, serving as a trustee of Alabama Boys' Industrial School in Birmingham and president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1915 to 1917. She was active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs, and the women's suffrage movement.
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