Letter from Stewart J. Lloyd, a professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, to John H. Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
In the letter Lloyd asks Bankhead to support the selective service legislation sponsored by President Wilson. The Selective Service Act, which required men from ages twenty-one to thirty to register for military service, was passed in May 1917. At the time the letter was written, Bankhead was repres...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the letter Lloyd asks Bankhead to support the selective service legislation sponsored by President Wilson. The Selective Service Act, which required men from ages twenty-one to thirty to register for military service, was passed in May 1917. At the time the letter was written, Bankhead was representing Alabama in the United States Senate. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1906, and in the Senate from 1907 to 1920. |
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