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Bankhead</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Hollis_Bankhead_cph.3a43983.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/John_Hollis_Bankhead_cph.3a43983.jpg/220px-John_Hollis_Bankhead_cph.3a43983.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/John_Hollis_Bankhead_cph.3a43983.jpg/330px-John_Hollis_Bankhead_cph.3a43983.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/John_Hollis_Bankhead_cph.3a43983.jpg/440px-John_Hollis_Bankhead_cph.3a43983.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1065" data-file-height="1406" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senator</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 18, 1907 – March 1, 1920</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Tyler_Morgan" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tyler Morgan">John Tyler Morgan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/B._B._Comer" title="B. 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Comer</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a></span><br />from Alabama's <a href="/wiki/Alabama%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Alabama's 6th congressional district">6th</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1907</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Mason_Martin" title="John Mason Martin">John Mason Martin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Richmond_P._Hobson" title="Richmond P. Hobson">Richmond P. Hobson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Senate" title="Alabama Senate">Alabama Senate</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1876–1877</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_House_of_Representatives" title="Alabama House of Representatives">Alabama House of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1865–1867<br />1880–1881</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Hollis Bankhead</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1842-09-13</span>)</span>September 13, 1842<br />Moscow, near the present day town of Sulligent, <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 1, 1920<span style="display:none">(1920-03-01)</span> (aged 77)<br /><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Tallulah James Brockman</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">5, including <a href="/wiki/John_H._Bankhead_II" title="John H. Bankhead II">John</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_B._Bankhead" title="William B. Bankhead">William</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Walter_W._Bankhead" title="Walter W. Bankhead">Walter W. Bankhead</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(grandson)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead" title="Tallulah Bankhead">Tallulah Bankhead</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(granddaughter)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_John_Hollis_Bankhead.png" class="mw-file-description" title="John H. Bankhead's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Signature_of_John_Hollis_Bankhead.png/128px-Signature_of_John_Hollis_Bankhead.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="55" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Signature_of_John_Hollis_Bankhead.png 1.5x" data-file-width="173" data-file-height="74" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Hollis Bankhead</b> (September 13, 1842 – March 1, 1920) was an American politician and <a href="/wiki/Confederate_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederate Army">Confederate Army</a> soldier. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>, Bankhead served as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senator</a> from the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> from 1907 until his death in 1920. Bankhead had additionally served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Legislature" title="Alabama Legislature">Alabama Legislature</a>, and as warden of the <a href="/wiki/Wetumpka_State_Penitentiary" title="Wetumpka State Penitentiary">state penitentiary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wetumpka,_Alabama" title="Wetumpka, Alabama">Wetumpka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_military_service">Early life and military service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_H._Bankhead&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bankhead was born on September 13, 1842, at <a href="/wiki/Moscow,_Lamar_County,_Alabama" title="Moscow, Lamar County, Alabama">Moscow</a>, present-day <a href="/wiki/Lamar_County,_Alabama" title="Lamar County, Alabama">Lamar County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> (near present-day <a href="/wiki/Sulligent,_Alabama" title="Sulligent, Alabama">Sulligent</a>), the son of Susan Fleming (Hollis) and James Greer Bankhead.<sup id="cite_ref-Cyclopaedia_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cyclopaedia-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His great-grandfather, James Bankhead (1738–1799) was born in <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> and settled in <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was educated in the common schools and served in the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate States Army</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, rising to the rank of captain, in the Alabama 16th Infantry, Company K.<sup id="cite_ref-CNE_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNE-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_H._Bankhead&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the Civil War, Bankhead went on to serve as warden of the <a href="/wiki/Wetumpka_State_Penitentiary" title="Wetumpka State Penitentiary">state penitentiary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wetumpka,_Alabama" title="Wetumpka, Alabama">Wetumpka</a>. During this period, he was said to have taken part of the exploitation of inmates as cheap labor for industry as part of Alabama's convict-leasing system.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bankhead was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_House_of_Representatives" title="Alabama House of Representatives">Alabama House of Representatives</a> from 1865 to 1867, and again in 1880 and 1881. In 1876 and 1877 he was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Senate" title="Alabama Senate">State Senate</a>. He was elected to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> in 1887, serving until 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-CNE_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNE-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cd_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cd-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="U.S._Senate">U.S. Senate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_H._Bankhead&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: U.S. Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At age 65, John H. Bankhead was appointed, then elected, to serve out the remainder of the U.S. Senate term left by the death of <a href="/wiki/John_Tyler_Morgan" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tyler Morgan">John Tyler Morgan</a> and later re-elected twice. He served from June 18, 1907, until his death in Washington on March 1, 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bankhead was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Inland_Waterways_Commission" title="Inland Waterways Commission">Inland Waterways Commission</a> in 1907,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was instrumental in enacting the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aid_Road_Act_of_1916" title="Federal Aid Road Act of 1916">Federal Aid Road Act of 1916</a>, which became the first federal highway funding legislation. He was also a member of the Commission on Public Buildings and the Commission on Rivers and Harbors. He wrote several books relating to post roads.<sup id="cite_ref-CNE_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNE-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bankhead served as campaign manager for <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Underwood" title="Oscar Underwood">Oscar Underwood</a>'s <a href="/wiki/1912_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1912 Democratic National Convention">1912 presidential candidacy</a>. During his Senate tenure, Bankhead opposed the <a href="/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution</a>, which mandated nationwide women's suffrage.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following his death, <a href="/wiki/B._B._Comer" title="B. B. Comer">B. B. Comer</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Alabama" title="List of governors of Alabama">governor of Alabama</a>, was appointed to serve the rest of his term until November 2, 1920, when <a href="/wiki/J._Thomas_Heflin" title="J. Thomas Heflin">J. Thomas Heflin</a> was elected to serve out the term. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_H._Bankhead&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He married Tallulah James Brockman. She was of <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary</a> ancestry, her father's great-grandfather, Benjamin Kilgore, having been a captain of a South Carolina company in the War of the Revolution. She was the daughter of James H. Brockman, a native of Greenville District, South Carolina. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tallulah_James_Brockman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Tallulah_James_Brockman.jpg/220px-Tallulah_James_Brockman.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Tallulah_James_Brockman.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="348" /></a><figcaption>Tallulah James Brockman</figcaption></figure> <p>Her education was received in the fashionable schools of Tuskegee and Montgomery, Alabama. Their two elder sons, <a href="/wiki/John_H._Bankhead_II" title="John H. Bankhead II">John Hollis</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_B._Bankhead" title="William B. Bankhead">William Brockman</a>, were practicing lawyers. The youngest, Henry McAuley, was a student at the University of Alabama. The elder daughter, Louise, married Representative <a href="/wiki/William_Hayne_Perry" class="mw-redirect" title="William Hayne Perry">William Hayne Perry</a>, of Greenville, South Carolina, son of former South Carolina governor <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Perry" title="Benjamin Franklin Perry">Benjamin Franklin Perry</a> and the younger, Marie, was the wife of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_McAdory_Owen" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas McAdory Owen">Thomas McAdory Owen</a>, a historian by profession.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy">Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_H._Bankhead&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>United States Senator <a href="/wiki/John_H._Bankhead_II" title="John H. Bankhead II">John H. Bankhead II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Brockman_Bankhead" class="mw-redirect" title="William Brockman Bankhead">William Brockman Bankhead</a> were his sons, and actress <a href="/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead" title="Tallulah Bankhead">Tallulah Bankhead</a> was his granddaughter. The cross-country <a href="/wiki/Bankhead_Highway" title="Bankhead Highway">Bankhead Highway</a> was named after him, as is <a href="/wiki/Bankhead_Lake" title="Bankhead Lake">Bankhead Lake</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Black_Warrior_River" title="Black Warrior River">Black Warrior River</a> near Birmingham. Also, the <a href="/wiki/Bankhead_Tunnel" title="Bankhead Tunnel">Bankhead Tunnel</a> on <a href="/wiki/US_98" class="mw-redirect" title="US 98">US 98</a> in Mobile, Alabama, is named after him. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_H._Bankhead&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bankhead_House_(Jasper,_Alabama)" title="Bankhead House (Jasper, Alabama)">Bankhead House (Jasper, Alabama)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Greer_Bankhead_House" title="James Greer Bankhead House">James Greer Bankhead House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congress_members_who_died_in_office_(1900%E2%80%9349)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)">List of United States Congress 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