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Bankhead, John Hollis

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Bankhead, John Hollis (1872–1946)

US lawyer and politician. As Alabama state representative, 1903–05, he wrote a law which deprived African-Americans of suffrage. In 1930 he ran successfully for the US Senate as a ‘Jeffersonian Democrat’ and embraced New Deal farm programs. The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (1937) established the Farm Security Administration which assisted migrant workers.



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