{"id":1695,"date":"2015-09-29T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2018-10-18T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:40:42","slug":"mayfield-james-jefferson-1861-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"MAYFIELD, JAMES JEFFERSON, 1861-1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, judge; author of legal codes. Born&#8211; March 22, 1861, Moore&#8217;s Bridge, Ala. Parents&#8211; James Jefferson and Amanda (South) Mayfield. Married&#8211; Susie Martin, June 30, 1897. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., 1885; LL.B., 1888, University of Alabama. Worked as a teacher, 1885-87; tutor of physics and astronomy, University of Alabama, 1887-88. Began legal practice,\u00a0 Tuscaloosa, 1888; served in Alabama House of Representatives, 1894-1896; judge of the City Court, Tuscaloosa, 1896-1903; Code Commissioner, Alabama, 1903-1908; Associate Justice, Alabama Supreme Court, 1908-1919; resigned to write the Alabama Code of 1924. Counselor, Governors Kirby and Brandon. Died January 1, 1927.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online;\u00a0Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama &#8230;. Nashville; Marshall &amp; Bruce Co., 1901.<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield&#8217;s Alabama Form Book Legal and Business Forms &#8230;. Nashville; Marshall and Bruce Co., 1924.<\/p>\n<p>A Scrapbook on Constitutional Government. Atlanta; Foote &amp; Davies Co., 1925.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepared:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Code of Alabama &#8230;. Nashville; Marshall and Bruce, 1907.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Preparer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Code of Alabama &#8230;. Atlanta; The Foote and Davis Co., 1897.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Paralled, Annotated and Indexed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annotations of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Nashville; Marshall &amp; Bruce Co., 1904.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, judge; author of legal codes. Born&#8211; March 22, 1861, Moore&#8217;s Bridge, Ala. Parents&#8211; James Jefferson and Amanda (South) Mayfield. Married&#8211; Susie Martin, June 30, 1897. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., 1885; LL.B., 1888, University of Alabama. Worked as a teacher, 1885-87; tutor of physics and astronomy, University of Alabama, 1887-88. Began legal practice,\u00a0 Tuscaloosa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","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=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8963,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/8963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}