Dixie Bibb Graves

Dixie Bibb Graves (born July 26, 1882 in Montgomery , Alabama , † January 21, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . She represented the state of Alabama in the US Senate .

Dixie Bibb Graves was born as Dixie Bibb in 1882 on a plantation near Montgomery. From 1915 to 1917 she was President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy , a community that aims to preserve the history, culture and heritage of the Confederate States of America . When Senator Hugo Black was nominated to serve as Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1937 and subsequently stepped down from Congress , she was nominated for the vacant Senate seat by Alabama's Governor David Bibb Graves , to whom she had been married since October 10, 1900 to be recruited. She was a US Senator from August 20, 1937 to January 10, 1938. She did not run for the by-election to fill the vacant Senate seat. After she was replaced as Senator by J. Lister Hill , she retired from public life. Dixie Graves died in Montgomery on January 21, 1965 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery .

Web links

Dixie Bibb Graves in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

^ Cox, Karen L .: Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. University Press of Florida 2003.

personal data
SURNAME	Graves, Dixie Bibb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Montgomery , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1965
Place of death	Montgomery , Alabama

[1] Cox, Karen L .: Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. University Press of Florida 2003.