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Dixie Bibb Graves (1882-1965) served in the U.S senate for 5 months from 1937 to1938, a position to which she was appointed by her husband, Gov. Bibb Graves
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Dixie Bibb was born on July 26,1882
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Known as "Miss Dixie" by must Alabamians, Graves was an early advocated for women's rights who supported drafting women's in times of war, participated in the Alabama
Suffrage movement , and was the first of only