The Biographical Dictionary of America/Banks, Linn

BANKS, Linn, statesman, was born in Madison county, Va. For twenty successive years he was speaker of the Virginia house of delegates. Resigning in 1838 he was elected a representative to the 26th, and was re-elected to the 27th Congress. He resigned in September, 1841, and was thrown from his horse and drowned while fording Conway river, Jan. 14, 1842.