Dixie Bibb Graves

Dixie Bibb Graves (* July 26, 1882 in Montgomery, Alabama; † January 21, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. She represented the state of Alabama in the U.S. Senate.

Dixie Bibb Graves was born in 1882 as Dixie Bibb on a plantation near Montgomery. From 1915 to 1917 she was president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. When Senator Hugo Black in 1937 nominated as a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, and consequently resigned his seat in Congress, she was nominated by Alabama Governor David Bibb Graves, to whom she was married since October 10, 1900 for the vacant Senate seat to re- occupy. Thus it was dated August 20, 1937 to January 10, 1938 U.S. Senator. In the by-election for the renewal of the vacant Senate seat has become not stepped on. After they had been replaced by J. Lister Hill as Senator, she withdrew from public life. Dixie Graves died on January 21, 1965 in Montgomery and was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery.