Legislative tracking files, 1939-1943.
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Hill, J. Lister (Joseph Lister), 1894-1984
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Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 – December 20, 1984) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress for more than forty-five years, as both a U.S. Representative (1923–1938) and a U.S. Senator (1938–1969). During his Senate career he was active on health-related issues, and served as Senate Majority Whip (1941–47), and Hill also served as the Chair of the Senate Labor Committee. At the time of his retirement, Hill was the fourth-mo...
Bankhead, William Brockman, 1874-1940
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William Bankhead (1874-1940) was a member of one of Alabama's most important political families and served as Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives. He took an active role in passing Depression-era and New Deal legislation and sided with Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in opposing isolationists in Congress as World War II loomed on the horizon. He was also the father of controversial actress Tallulah Bankhead and uncle to politician and businessman Walter William Bankhead. William Brockma...
Grant, George McIncakem 1897- .
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Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray), 1892-1965
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Dixon was born 1892 July 25 to Frank and Launa Murray Dixon in Oakland, Cal. In 1906 he entered Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H.; then attended Columbia University for one term. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1916 with an LL.B., and was admitted to the Ala. bar in 1917. That same year he entered the U.S. Army and fought overseas in World War I. He was attached to the French Army as an aerial observer. On 1918 July 21 he was wounded, which caused the amputation of hi...
Jarman, Pete, 1892- .
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Starnes, Joe, 1895- .
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Hobbs, Samuel Francis, 1887-1952
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Alabama. County Board of Equalization.
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Alabama. Governor (1939-1943 : Dixon).
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Bankhead, John Hollis, 1872-1946
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U.S. senator from Alabama. From the description of Letter, 1932 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974791 Bankhead was born 1872 July 2 to John H. and Tallulah Brockman Bankhead at Moscow, Lamar Co., Ala. He graduated from the University of Ala. with a B.A. in 1891 as president of his class. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1893 with a Bachelor of Laws, again as president of his class. That same year he began practicing law in Jasper,...
Alabama. County Board of Review.
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Carmody, John M. (John Michael), 1881-1962
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Engineer, industrial executive, and government official. From the description of Papers, 1900-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155521899 Administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of John Michael Carmody : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309730779 ...
Tennessee Valley authority
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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...