Following his controversial win over Heflin in 1930 , the Senator from Alabama worked at the passage of various pieces of New Deal legislation to benefit cotton farmers , including the Subsistence Homestead Act of 1933 , the Cotton Control Act of 1934 and the parity payment amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 . In 1943 , he sponsored legislation to exempt " substantially fulltime " farm workers from the draft during World War II . Bankhead was among twelve nominated at the 1944 Democratic National Convention to serve as Franklin D. Roosevelt 's running mate in the presidential election that year . He was in third place , with 98 votes , when Bankhead made a surprise withdrawal of his candidacy in favor of his Senate colleague , Harry S. Truman , who was elected Vice-President and succeeded to the presidency in 1945
1944 Democratic National Convention
1944 Democratic National Convention
John H. Bankhead II