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Oscar ¥« Underwood COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Haftlsf fl pi* Papers X Bute* 11/2/55 OSCAR V (1862 - 1929) Ihe. papers of Oscar Underwood, l a i y i j p o l i t i c i a n . Congress* ©an and Senator, a r e deposited i n t h e Dep&rtnent of Ar©hiv©s and H l s t o i y of Alabama, Montgomery, Alsbtas* A few of thass d e a l with baaking l e g i s l a t i o n I n 1911# &&d carbon copied of correspondence begin about 1919* Senator Underwood pushed the Ulasa-Owen b i l l t o passage b j holding t h e Hous© i n session ^ g a i n e t t h e p r o t e s t s of Benbers vbo wanted t o go home t o campaign* 'there i s eyideno© t h a t V» P . Q* Harding, Ch&irmn of t h e Board of Governors of th® F e d e m l Beserve Bystem* v s s appointed becsuse of Representative 0nderwood f s influence* Harding h&& advised Underwood on financi&l l e g i s l a t i o n p r i o r t o t h e Wilson administration. Oscar V# Underwood ii +a« Kot© 1862, May 6 Bom, Louisville, Kentucky Educ&ted at Ru&by School, Louisville and University of Virginia 18&4 Admitted to bar of Alabama, in practice in Birminghtss 1885, Oet* 8 1892 Married Eugenia Massay, dee» 1900 (2 children) 1B95-1915 Chairman, Democratic Exec. Comi&ittee, 9th d i s t r i c t , Al&b&ma Member 54th to 63rd Congresses, 9xh d i s t r i c t , 1&&&6T of the House end chairman of Ways *n& Means Committee, 62nd and 63rd Congresses 1904, Harried Bertha Voodvard (2nd wife) Sept, 10 1917-27 U. £• Senator froa Alabama 1920 Elected De&oeratic leader cf the Senate 1924 Candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination, defeated 1927 Member, Internfrtiorul (Peace) Cofs&ission betveen U« S« «.nd France 1929, JMW See* Vho Was tfho in toerioa, 1897«19iU# vol» It Marquis Doctoral thesis on Underwood written by Evens C. Johnson, and available at University of Sorth Carolina Library 25 Oscar W# Undervood III * | Description of Series In Alabama Bep&rtjaent of Archives &nd History f Kon^goreery 30 file drawers Papers arrange*! chronologically, day by day* Received in Letter boxes Un&rr&nged* Kech box covers & definite period, usually & ye*r» Within the boxf the papers are 9rrcng«4 ftlphftbetieally. Mostly correspondence received in Binaingham,
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