the National March of Dimes Association, she worked for a cure and hospitals to treat polio. She was also chair or honorary chair of the Women's Division of the State Democratic Campaign in 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960. She was a member of the Alabama Historical Association, the American Legion Auxiliary, the No Name Club, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Death and legacy Graves died in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, on January 21, 1965 (age 82 years, 179 days). She is interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama. She was named to the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1972. The Dixie Bibb Graves Armory was built in Montgomery, Alabama in 1935 as a WPA project, which was converted in the 1990s to the Armory Learning Arts Center. See also Women in the United States Senate References External links Encyclopedia of Alabama |- |- 1882 births 1965 deaths American suffragists American temperance activists Democratic Party United States senators from Alabama Female United States senators First Ladies and Gentlemen of Alabama Politicians from Montgomery, Alabama Women in Alabama politics 20th-century American politicians Activists from Montgomery, Alabama 20th-century American women politicians