Dixie Bibb Graves Swearing In

Dixie Bibb Graves being sworn into 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 served from August 1937 to January 1938.

Dixie Bibb Graves being sworn in as Alabama senator
Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Dixie Bibb Graves being sworn in as Alabama senator