Oscar W. Underwood, conservative member of U.S. House of Representatives and, after 1914, of the U.S. Senate.
John Bankhead, U.S. senator and leading architect of U.S. highway policy.
Henry D. Clayton, member of House of Representatives and expert on antitrust
legislation.
Richmond Pearson Hobson, Spanish-American War hero, progressive member of the House of Representatives, and advocate of women's suffrage and prohibition.
Tom Heflin, member of the House of Representatives who sometimes acted as a
firebrand on race and religion.
Stanley H. Dent Jr., chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, which played a key role in America's military mobilization for World War I.
Edward B. Almon and John L. Burnett, members of the House of Representatives from north Alabama, who risked their House seats by opposing U.S. declaration of war on Germany in 1917.