John Hollis Bankhead

John Hollis Bankhead , 1872-1946, American politician, b. Moscow, Ala.; brother of William Brockman Bankhead . He was elected to the Alabama legislature in 1903 and served in the U.S. Senate from 1931 until his death. Bankhead was a leader of the farm bloc in the Senate and strongly supported the New Deal . He sponsored (with his brother) the Bankhead Cotton Control Act of 1934.

Magruder, John Bankhead (1807–71) Confederate army officer, born in Port Royal, Virginia. His performance during the Seven Days' Battle (1862) was initially impressive (at Mechanicsville and Gaines' Mill) but was later tarnished by inadequate assaults and disastrous attacks (at Savage Station and Malvern Hill). Although charges that he had been inebriated at Malvern Hill were dismissed, Magruder nevertheless was given a lesser subsequent command than the one anticipated. For the remainder of the conflict, he served in the western Confederacy, and competently orchestrated the recapture of Galveston (1863).

Pierpont, John (1785–1866), born in Connecticut, graduated from Yale (1804) and practiced law at Newburyport, Mass., where he wrote The Portrait (1812), a Federalist poem extolling Washington and Hamilton and excoriating Jefferson. Airs of Palestine (1816), a poem in heroic couplets praising sacred music, written during a period of shopkeeping at Baltimore, put him in the front rank of American poets of the time. After graduation from Harvard Divinity School (1818), he became minister of the Hollis Street Church in Boston (1819), where his advocacy of antislavery, pacifism, and temperance irritated his congregation, who conducted a long campaign to oust him. He was accused of failing to confine himself to proper ecclesiastical subjects and of wasting his time in “the making of Books,” which included poems based on a trip to the Holy Land (1835–36) and hymns and odes on religious, political, and liberal subjects, such as The Anti‐Slavery Poems of John Pierpont (1843). After his resignation (1845), he was a pastor of other Unitarian churches, a Civil War chaplain, and a clerk in the U.S. Treasury Department. J.P. Morgan was his grandson.