Oscar Underwood
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| Senate Minority Leader | |
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In office 1920–1923 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Joseph T. Robinson |
| House Majority Leader | |
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In office 1911–1915 |
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| Preceded by | Sereno E. Payne |
| Succeeded by | Claude Kitchin |
| House Minority Whip | |
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In office 1899–1901 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | James T. Lloyd |
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United States Senator from Alabama |
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In office March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1927 |
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| Preceded by | Francis S. White |
| Succeeded by | Hugo Black |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 9th district |
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In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1915 |
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| Preceded by | Truman Heminway Aldrich |
| Succeeded by | George Huddleston |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 9th district |
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In office March 4, 1895 – June 9, 1896 |
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| Preceded by | Louis W. Turpin |
| Succeeded by | Truman Heminway Aldrich |
| Personal details | |
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Oscar Wilder Underwood May 6, 1862 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Died | January 25, 1929 (aged 66) Woodlawn Plantation, Accotink, Virginia |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Eugenia Massie (d. 1900) Bertha Woodward |
| Education | University of Virginia |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Profession | Attorney, politician |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
Oscar Wilder Underwood (May 6, 1862 – January 25, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician from Alabama, and also a candidate for President of the United States in 1912 and 1924. Underwood was the only Democrat to lead his party in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and the first formally designated floor leader in the U.S. Senate.
Underwood was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 6, 1862, the eldest of three sons of lawyer and planter Eugene Underwood and his second wife, Frederica Virginia Wilder. Eugene Underwood also had three sons with his first wife before her death in 1857. His paternal grandfather, Joseph R. Underwood, served as U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky, as well as on the Kentucky Supreme Court. His maternal grandfather, cotton merchant Jabez Smith, once served as mayor of Petersburg, Virginia.
In 1865, the Underwood family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, hoping the climate would help Oscar's chronic bronchitis,as well as his mother's health. After ten years, the family moved back to Louisville, where Oscar graduated from the Rugby University School, an exclusive private school, in 1879. He then attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where he was president of the Jefferson Society, as well as excelled in debate. He also received a doctor of laws degree from Columbia College in New York by 1920 (possibly honorary). He served as president of the University of Virginia Alumni Association in 1913 and 1914.
Oscar Underwood married twice, the first time in Charlottesville on October 8, 1885 to Eugenia Massie, daughter of Dr. Thomas Eugene Massie. They had two sons before she died in 1900: John Lewis Underwood (1888-1973) and Oscar Wilder Underwood Jr. (1890-1962). Underwood remarried on September 10, 1904, to Bertha Woodward (1870-1948), daughter of Union Army veteran Joseph Hershey Woodward (1843-1917) of the Woodward Iron Company and his wife Martha Burt (both of Ohio County in what became West Virginia), who survived him.
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