{"id":1716,"date":"2014-12-15T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2018-10-11T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:55:40","slug":"martin-thomas-wesley-1881-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"MARTIN, THOMAS WESLEY, 1881-1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney; businessman; president of Alabama Power Company and the Southern Company; civic leader. Born&#8211; Scottsboro, Ala., August 13, 1881. Parents&#8211; William Logan and Margaret (Ledbetter) Martin. Married&#8211; Mary Evelyn Tyson, June 4, 1919. Education&#8211; Starke University School, Montgomery; law student, University of Alabama, 1898-1900. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1901. Employed as an attorney and junior partner, Martin and Martin, 1901-1907; Assistant Attorney General, State of Alabama, 1903-1911; general counsel, Alabama Power Company, 1911-1964; vice president, 1915; president, 1920-1949; chairman of the board, 1949-64.\u00a0 Founded Mississippi Power, Georgia Power, South Carolina Power, and Gulf States Power, in the holding company Southeastern (later Southern) Power.\u00a0 Led in the building of dams in Alabama, beginning with the Lay Dam in 1913, bringing electricity to the state.\u00a0 Helped to found The Southern Research Institute and the Alabama State Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0 Led in the movement to found the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. Member Newcomen Society; Rotary; served on boards of many\u00a0corporations and institutions. \u00a0Elected to Officier d&#8217;Academie (France) and Order of the White Rose (Finland). Honors&#8211; South&#8217;s &#8220;Man of the Year,&#8221; 1946, Forbes Magazine&#8217;s fifty foremost business leaders; &#8220;Humanitarian of the Year,&#8221; 1964. Lake Martin on the Tallapoosa River is named in his honor.\u00a0 Died December 8, 1964.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Story of Alabama;\u00a0\u00a0Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doctor William Crawford Gorgas of Alabama and the Panama Canal. New York; The Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>French Military Adventurers in Alabama, 1818-1828. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Forty Years of Alabama Power Company, 1911-1951. New York; Newcomen Society in North America, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Electricity in Alabama Since the Turn of the Century, 1900-1952. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. New York; Newcomen Society in North America, 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney; businessman; president of Alabama Power Company and the Southern Company; civic leader. Born&#8211; Scottsboro, Ala., August 13, 1881. Parents&#8211; William Logan and Margaret (Ledbetter) Martin. Married&#8211; Mary Evelyn Tyson, June 4, 1919. Education&#8211; Starke University School, Montgomery; law student, University of Alabama, 1898-1900. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1901. Employed as an attorney [&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-1716","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\/1716","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=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}