Courtesy of
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Dixie Bibb Graves
Dixie Bibb Graves being sworn in to the U.S. Senate by Vice President John Nance Garner. Dixie Graves was appointed by her
husband, Gov. Bibb Graves, to fill the vacancy left when Hugo Black resigned to serve on the Supreme Court. She filled the
position from August 1937 to January 1938.