Oscar Underwood

Oscar Wilder Underwood
United States Senator from Alabama
In office March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1927
Preceded by	Francis S. White
Succeeded by	Hugo Black
Born	May 6, 1862 Louisville, Kentucky
Died	January 25, 1929 (aged 66) near Accotink, Alabama
Political party	Democratic

Oscar Wilder Underwood (May 6, 1862–January 25, 1929) was an American politician. He served as a Representative from Alabama in the House of Representatives from 1895 to 1896 and from 1897 to 1915. He was subsequently elected to the Senate and served there from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1927, and did not run for reelection in 1926.

Underwood was the first House minority whip from 1900 to 1901. He was then House majority leader between 1911 and 1915. Finally, he was Senate minority leader from 1920 to 1923. He was a candidate for the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1912 and the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. He was a "wet" (opponent of prohibition), and was the leader of the anti-Ku Klux Klan forces in the Democratic party in 1924.

Underwood was the grandson of Joseph R. Underwood. He was buried in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery.

References

• Oscar Underwood at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Fleming, James S. "Oscar W. Underwood: The First Modern House

Leader, 1911—1915," in Raymond W Smock and Susan W Hammond, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries (1998) pp 91-118

• Evans C. Johnson. Oscar W. Underwood: A Political Biography (LSU Press, 1980).

External links

• Oscar Underwood at Find a Grave

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