Bankhead, William Brockman

1874 - Born on the 12th of April in Moscow, Lamar County, Alabama.

1893 - Attended and graduated from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

1895 - Bankhead graduated at Georgetown University Law School at Washington, D.C.

         - Admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Huntsville, Alabama.

1901-1901 - Bankhead  was the member of the State house of representatives.

1898-1902 - He served as city attorney of Huntsville.

1905 - Bankhead  moved to Jasper, Walker County, Alabama and continued the practice of law.

1910-1914 - Served as solicitor of the fourteenth judicial circuit of Alabama.

1914 - He is unsuccessful to be a candidate for nomination to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

1935-1937 - Served as House majority leader.

1936-1940 - Bankhead becomes the Speaker of the House.

1917-1940 - He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses.

1940 - He died on 15th September in Washington, D.C.