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Senate Years of Service: 1937-1938 Party: Democrat
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GRAVES, Dixie Bibb, a Senator from Alabama; born Dixie Bibb on a plantation near
Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala., July 26, 1882; attended the public
schools; civic leader; trustee of Alabama Boys Industrial School, Birmingham,
Ala.; president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy 1915-1917; active in
the Womens Christian Temperance Union, the Alabama Federation of Womens
Clubs, and the womens suffrage movement; appointed on August 20, 1937, as a
Democrat by her husband, Governor Bibb Graves, to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugo L. Black and served from
August 20, 1937, until her resignation on January 10, 1938; was not a candidate
for election to fill the vacancy; retired from public life; died in Montgomery,
Ala., January 21, 1965; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
BibliographyWatson, Elbert L. Dixie Bibb Graves. In
Alabama United States Senators, pp. 127-31. Huntsville, AL:
Strode Publishers, 1982; Dixie Bibb Graves, in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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