- William Bacon Oliver
William Bacon Oliver (
May 23 ,1867 –May 27 ,1948 ) was a Congressman fromAlabama .He was born in
Eutaw, Alabama , graduated from theUniversity of Alabama in 1887 and from the law department in 1889. After additional courses at theUniversity of Virginia in the same year, he was admitted to the Alabama bar, and set up a practice in Tuscaloosa.He became dean of the law school of the University of Alabama in 1909, serving until 1913, then ran successfully for Congress in 1914, and remained there for eleven Congresses, not standing for reelection in 1936.
He then served as a special assistant to the
United States Attorney General from 1939 to 1944, at which time he retired. He died in 1948, and is buried in theEutaw Cemetery in Eutaw.The
William Bacon Oliver Lock and Dam on theBlack Warrior River in Alabama is named after him, as is theOliver Lake behind the dam.References
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* [http://www.riversofalabama.org/Black%20Warrior/BW_Hydrologic_Modifications.htm Black Warrior River hydrologic modifications]
* [http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=scjawnew&id=I9344 RootsWeb genealogy entry]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7342078&pt=%3Cb%3EWilliam%3C/b%3E%20Bacon%20Oliver Find-A-Grave entry]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oliver-ollius.html Political Graveyard biography]External links
* [http://www.library.law.ua.edu/spcoll/findaids/olivaid.htm Memorabilia at the University of Alabama]
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