President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Muscle Shoals in January 1933 to view the Wilson Dam with a party that included senators George Norris, Kenneth McKellar, and Clarence Dill, Tennessee governor Hill McAlister, Alabama governor Benjamin M. Miller, and Roosevelt's daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall.
Roosevelt Visits Wilson Dam
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Courtesy of the Birmingham Public Library Archives
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