BIOGRAPHICAL* THE VICE PRESIDENT (Term expires at noon on January 20, 1941) JOHN NANCE GARNER, Democrat, of Uvalde, Tex., was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses; elected Speaker of the House December 7, 1931; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress, but resigned, having been elected Vice President of the United States November 8, 1932; reelected Vice President of the United States November 3, 1936. THE VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT (Term commences at noon on January 20, 1941) HENRY AGARD WALLACE, Democrat, of Des Moines, Iowa; born on a farm in Adair County, Iowa, October 7, 1888, son of Henry Cantwell Wallace (Secretary of Agriculture, 1921-24) and Carrie May (Brodhead) Wallace, and grandson of Henry Wallace, a member of President Theodore Roosevelt's County Life Commission; B. S. A., Iowa State College, 1910, honorary M. S. A., Iowa State College, 1920; married Ilo Browne, of Indianola, Iowa, May 20, 1914; children-Henry B., Robert B., Jean B.; editorial staff of Wallace's Farmer, 1910-33; editor, 1921-33 (editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, 1929-33); devised first of corn-hog ratio charts indicating probable course of markets, 1915; author of many publications on agriculture; chairman, Agricultural Round Table, Williamstown, 1927; delegate, International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 1929; experimented with breeding high-yielding strains of corn, 1913-33; appointed Secretary of Agriculture, March 4, 1933, and served until his resignation on September 5, 1940; elected Vice President of the United States on November 5, 1940, for the term beginning January 20, 1941. ALABAMA SENATORS JOHN HOLLIS BANKHEAD, 2d, Democrat, of Jasper, was born in Lamar County, Ala., July 8, 1872; attended public schools and was graduated from the University of Alabama, A. B., 1891; Georgetown University Law School, LL. B., 1893; received honorary LL. D. degrees from Alabama Polytechnic Institute and from University of Alabama; S. A. E. fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa; admitted to the bar in 1893; married; elected November 4, 1930, to the United States Senate; reelected November 3, 1936. LISTER HILL, Democrat, of Montgomery, Ala., where he was born December 29, 1894; was graduated from Starke University School, Montgomery, Ala., in 1911; from University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1914; from the law school of the University of Alabama in 1915; and from the law school of Columbia University, New York City, in 1916; took a special course at the law school, University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Mich., in the summer of 1915; was admitted to the bar of Alabama in 1915 and commenced the practice of law at Montgomery, Ala., in October 1916; president of the Montgomery Board of Education, 1917-22; served in the Army with the Seventeenth and Seventy-first United States Infantry Regiments during the World War, 1917-19; member of Phi Beta Kappa; married Henrietta Fontaine McCormick of Eufaula, Ala; children, Henrietta Fontaine and L. L.; elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John R. Tyson; renominated and reelected Biographies are based on information furnished or authorized by the respective Senators and Congress men. without opposition to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses, and served from August 14, 1923, until his resignation on January 11, 1938; appointed to the United States Senate on January 10, 1938, and elected on April 26, 1938, to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1939; reelected on November 8, 1938, for the term ending January 3, 1945. REPRESENTATIVES FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, and Wilcox(7 counties). Population (1930), 272,633. FRANK WILLIAM BOYKIN, Democrat, of Mobile, Ala., was born in Bladon Springs, Choctaw County, Ala., on February 21, 1885; educated in the public schools; began business career early in life; now prominently identified with real-estate, farming, livestock, timber, lumber, and naval stores business in south Alabama; married Miss Ocllo Gunn, of Thomasville, Clarke County, Ala., and they have five children; during the World War was official in shipbuilding companies which built 52 percent of all ships built on the Gulf coast prior to Armistice; was president of the Loyalty League of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; is a thirty-second degree Mason, Shriner; a member of the Methodist Church; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress at a special election held on July 30, 1935, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. John McDuffie; reelected to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Lowndes, Montgomery, and Pike (9 counties). Population (1930), 330,677. GEORGE MCINVALE GRANT, Democrat, of Troy, Ala., was born in Louisville, Ala., July 11, 1897; attended the academic department of the University of Alabama and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1922; is a lawyer by profession; served as county solicitor of Pike County, 1927-38, and as chairman of the Pike County Democratic executive committee, 1927-38; member of the State Democratic executive committee, 1935-38; World War veteran; served as State commander of the American Legion in 1929, and as national secretary of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in 1922; married Miss Matalie Carter, December 5, 1938; nominated in special Democratic primary on March 11, 1938, and elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress at a special election on June 14, 1938, to fill the unexpired term of Congressman Lister Hill, resigned; reelected to the Seventysixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses without opposition. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, Macon, and Russell (10 counties). Population (1930), 297,574. HENRY BASCOM STEAGALL, Democrat, of Ozark, was born in Clopton, Dale County, Ala.; was educated in the common schools, with 2 years in the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School, Abbeville, Ala., and graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama; since graduation has been a practicing attorney; was county solicitor for a number of years; member of the legislature; State district prosecuting attorney for several years prior to nomination and election to Congress; member of State Democratic executive committee; delegate to State party conventions and to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore in 1912; is a widower and has three children; was nominated for Congress June 29, 1914; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress without opposition, and renominated and reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventysecond, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventyseventh Congresses; is chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee of the House. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Autauga, Calhoun, Clay, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, St. Clair, and Talladega (8 counties). Population (1930), 264,658. SAM HOBBS, Democrat, of Selma, Ala.; born at Selma, October 5, 1887; attended the public school, Callaway's preparatory school, Marion Military Institute, Vanderbilt University, and University of Alabama; lawyer; married Sarah Ellen Greene, of Birmingham, Ala.; children: Sam Earle, Rosa Miller, and Truman; appointed judge of the fourth judicial circuit of Alabama in 1921, elected in 1923 for a term of 6 years, and resigned to resume law practice in 1926; chairman of Muscle Shoals Commission, 1931; chairman Alabama N. R. A. Committee, 1933; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934; elected March 6, 1936, by the House of Representatives, one of the managers on the part of the House for the impeachment trial of Halsted L. Ritter, then judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and served as one of such managers in that trial before the Senate of the United States; reelected to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chambers, Cherokee, Cleburne, De Kalb, Etowah, Marshall, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (8 counties). Population (1930), 273,763. JOE STARNES, Democrat, of Guntersville, Ala.; was born at Guntersville, Ala., March 31, 1895; graduate of public and high schools of Marshall County, Ala.; graduate, University of Alabama with degree of LL. B.; teacher; lawyer; member State Board of Education of Alabama; World War veteran, served with American Expeditionary Forces; married to Del Whitaker, 1918, and they have two sons-Joe, Jr., and Paul; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934; reelected to Seventy-fifth; Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bibb, Chilton, Greene, Hale, Perry, Shelby, Sumter, and Tuscaloosa (8 counties). Population (1930), 236,412. PETE JARMAN, Democrat, of Livingston, Ala.; born in Greensboro, Ala., October 31, 1892; graduated from the University of Alabama, A. B. degree, 1913; chief clerk in probate office of Sumter County 1913-17; assistant examiner of accounts of the State of Alabama, 1919-30; secretary of state, 1931-35; assistant State comptroller, 1935-36; member of the State Democratic executive committee, 1927-31; second and first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twentyseventh Infantry during the World War, slightly wounded on the western front; inspector general of Alabama National Guard, with rank of major, 1922-24; division inspector of the Thirty-first Infantry Division, National Guard, with rank of lieutenant colonel, 1924 to 1940; commander of the Alabama Department of the American Legion, 1927-28; married Miss Beryl Bricken on February 25, 1930; member of the Methodist Church, Masons, Woodmen of the World, Maccabees, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and honorary member Kiwanis; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress, designated chairman of standing Committee on Memorials immediately; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress, became chairman of the House Committee on Printing and vice chairman of Joint Committee on Printing; reelected to the Seventyseventh Congress. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Walker, and Winston (9 counties). Population (1930), 256,797. WALTER WILL BANKHEAD, Democrat of Jasper; born July 21, 1897, at Jasper, Walker County, Ala.; attended public schools in Jasper, Ala.; was graduated from Marion Military Institute, A. B., in 1916, from the University of Alabama, A. B., in 1919, and from the University of Alabama Law School, LL. B., in 1920; is a lawyer by profession; married to Emelil Crumpton, of Maplesville, Chilton County, Ala., on June 5, 1920; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940. EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). Population (1930), 282,241. JOHN J. SPARKMAN, Democrat, of Huntsville, Ala., was born near Hartselle, Morgan County, Ala., December 20, 1899; attended the country schools, Morgan County High School, at Hartselle, and the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, where he received the degrees of A. B. in 1921, LL. B. in 1923, and A. M. in 1924; Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities; a Mason and a Woodman of the World; Kiwanian; member American Legion; is a lawyer by profession; was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Huntsville, being a 1 ZADOC L. WEATHERFORD, Democrat, of Red Bay, Ala.; born in Marion County, Ala., February 4, 1888; preliminary education in schools of Alabama and Mississippi; graduated from the University of Tennessee, medical department, 1914, with M. D. degree; served 18 months as interne St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.; served in World War as medical officer, August 27, 1917, to November 6, 1920; severely wounded, Argonne Forest, November 1, 1918, serving with Three Hundred Twenty-sixth Infantry. Eightysecond Division; was in various hospitals until discharged from service November 6, 1920; subdistrict medical officer, United States Veterans' Bureau, Montgomery, Ala., 1922 to 1924; general medical practice, Red Bay, Ala.; elected to State senate from Thirty-first Senatorial District 1938; resigned State senate, November 8, 1940; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress on November 5, 1940, to fill unexpired term of the late Speaker William B. Bankhead, from Seventh Alabama District; member of State, County, and National Medical Associations; president, Bank of Red Bay; member Missionary Baptist Church; Thirty-second degree Mason; married to Miss Ollie Barnes, of Red Bay, Ala., June 30, 1916; no children. |