William Bacon Oliver

He was born in Eutaw, Alabama, graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa[?] in 1887 and from the law department in 1889. After additional courses at the University 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 the Eutaw Cemetery[?] in Eutaw.

The William Bacon Oliver Lock and Dam[?] on the Black Warrior River[?] in Alabama is named after him, as is the Oliver Lake[?] behind the dam.

External Link

• Congressional biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000077)
• Memorabilia at the University of Alabama (http://www.library.law.ua.edu/spcoll/findaids/olivaid.htm)