Oscar W. Underwood

Oscar Wilder Underwood (1862-1929) was a state and U.S. senator from Alabama who held several leadership roles in Washington, D.C., including Senate minority leader from 1920-23. A Democrat who opposed the party's association with the Ku Klux Klan, he made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1924.

Portrait of Alabama Congressman and Senator Oscar W. Underwood
Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Portrait of Alabama Congressman and Senator Oscar W. Underwood