Henry B. Steagall

Henry Bascom Steagall (May 19, 1873 – November 22, 1943) was a United States representative from Alabama.

He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency and in 1933, he co-sponsored the Glass–Steagall Act with Carter Glass, an act that introduced banking reforms and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

Steagall was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Alabama's 3rd District in 1915 and served until 1943.

He voted in favor of the 1941 Lend Lease act to provide military aid to the United Kingdom in World War II.

[3] Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest that it was stee-gall (like the words tea and gall), with equal stress on each syllable.