Dixie Bibb (1882 - 1965)

Born 26 Jul 1882 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Ancestors

Wife of David Bibb Graves — married 10 Oct 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Died 21 Jan 1965 at age 82 in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Preceded by Hugo Black

Dixie Bibb Graves US Senator (Class 3) from Alabama 1937—1938

Succeeded by J. Lister Hill

Biography

Dixie Bibb is Notable.

Senator from Alabama; born Dixie Bibb on a plantation near Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala., July 26, 1882; daughter of Peyton Bibb and Isabel Tharp.

Civic leader; Advocate of the child labor amendment, worked for years in behalf of human welfare agencies.

Trustee of Alabama Boys' Industrial School, Birmingham, Ala.; president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy 1915-1917; active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs, and the women's 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 ^[1].

1. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

• Find A Grave: Memorial #6921957
• Wikipedia: Dixie Bibb Graves
• Alabama Women's Hall of Fame

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9DK-JWY : accessed 2 December 2019), Dixie Bibb in household of Leyton Bibb, Montgomery city Ward 4, Montgomery, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 101, sheet 14B, family 304, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,033.

• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-PMP8 : 5 November 2017), Bibb Graves and Dixie Bibb, 10 Oct 1900; citing Montgomery, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 2,358,483.

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JF8R-9GW : 15 February 2018), Dixie Bibb Graves, 21 Jan 1965; citing reference 1747, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,909,074.