John Hollis Bankhead (September 13, 1842 – March 1, 1920) was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier.

[4] He was educated in the common schools and served in the Confederate States Army, during the Civil War, rising to the rank of captain, in the Alabama 16th Infantry, Company K.[5] After the Civil War, Bankhead went on to serve as warden of the state penitentiary in Wetumpka.

During his Senate tenure, Bankhead opposed the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated nationwide women's suffrage.

She was of Revolutionary ancestry, her father's great-grandfather, Benjamin Kilgore, having been a captain of a South Carolina company in the War of the Revolution.

Their two elder sons, John Hollis and William Brockman, were practicing lawyers.

The elder daughter, Louise, married Representative William Hayne Perry, of Greenville, South Carolina, son of former South Carolina governor Benjamin Franklin Perry and the younger, Marie, was the wife of Thomas McAdory Owen, a historian by profession.