Frank W. Boykin
Frank William Boykin, Sr. (February 21, 1885, in Bladon Springs, Alabama – March 12, 1969, in Washington, D.C.) served as a Democratic Congressman in Alabama's 1st congressional district from 1935-1963.
Boykin had little formal education, but through had work and perseverance, became a successful businessman with interests in lumber and turpentine. During World War I, he was an executive with several shipbuilding companies. He was one of the more prominent defendants in Mobile's whiskey trials of 1924 and 1925.
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