Henry B. Steagall | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromAlabama's3rd district | |
| In office March 4, 1915 – November 22, 1943 | |
| Preceded by | William O. Mulkey |
| Succeeded by | George W. Andrews |
| Chairman of theCommittee on Banking and Currency | |
| In office March 4, 1931 – November 22, 1943 | |
| Preceded by | Louis T. McFadden |
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| Born | Henry Bascom Steagall (1873-05-19)May 19, 1873 Clopton, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | November 22, 1943(1943-11-22) (aged 70) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
Henry Bascom Steagall (May 19, 1873 – November 22, 1943) was aUnited States representative fromAlabama. He was chairman of theCommittee on Banking and Currency and in 1933, he co-sponsored theGlass–Steagall Act withCarter Glass, an act that introduced banking reforms and established theFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). With SenatorRobert F. Wagner, he co-sponsored theWagner-Steagall National Housing Act of September 1937 which created theUnited States Housing Authority.
Steagall was born inClopton, Alabama, on May 19, 1873. His paternal grandfather came to America fromEngland.[1] Steagall attended theSoutheast Alabama Agricultural School atAbbeville and graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1893. He served as the county solicitor ofDale County from 1902 to 1908 and was a Democratic member of theAlabama House of Representatives from 1906 to 1907. Steagall was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Alabama's 3rd District in 1915 and served until 1943. He voted in favor of the 1941 Lend Lease act to provide military aid to theUnited Kingdom in World War II.[2] He died while in office on November 22, 1943, inWashington, D.C. He was inducted into the Alabama Lawyers' Hall of Fame in 2002.[3]
Asked how to say his name, he toldTheLiterary Digest that it wasstee-gall (like the wordstea andgall), with equal stress on each syllable. He added, "This pronunciation is generally used throughout the South, and rarely used in the North. American northerners persist in stressing the first syllable and rhyming the name with 'eagle'."[4] He was known by African-Americans in Alabama as "Marse Henry."[5]
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