{"id":1260,"date":"2014-11-24T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T22:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:17:02","slug":"harrison-karl-c-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"HARRISON, KARL C., 1907-1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, banker, state senator. Born&#8211; October 29, 1907, Columbiana. Parents&#8211;William Edward and Georgia Exa Scott Harrison.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Mildred Holland Bennett.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Alabama, 1925-1927; graduate of American Institute of Banking, 1930; Birmingham School of Law, 1934. Admitted to the State Bar in 1934; practiced law in Columbiana after 1936. Member, Alabama State Senate, 1939-1943; Alabama House of Representatives, 1947-1955. Chairman of the board, First National Bank of Columbiana; vice president and director, People&#8217;s Bank of Pell City. Member, Shelby County Bar Association. Donated collections of Washington memorabilia to create the Karl C. Harrison Museum of George Washington in Columbiana. Died November 15, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Law, 1979; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Brief History of Shelby Springs. Columbiana, Ala.; s.n., 1941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, banker, state senator. Born&#8211; October 29, 1907, Columbiana. Parents&#8211;William Edward and Georgia Exa Scott Harrison.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Mildred Holland Bennett.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Alabama, 1925-1927; graduate of American Institute of Banking, 1930; Birmingham School of Law, 1934. Admitted to the State Bar in 1934; practiced law in Columbiana after 1936. Member, Alabama State Senate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}