{"id":1774,"date":"2016-08-01T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:18:05","slug":"mcduffie-john-1883-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"McDUFFIE, JOHN, 1883-1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, U. S. congressman, judge. Born&#8211; September 25, 1883, River Ridge, Monroe County, Ala. Parents&#8211; John and Virginia Marion (Lett) McDuffie. Married&#8211; Cornelia Hixon, October 20, 1915 (died 1935). Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Mary (Clarke) Maxon, September 18, 1941. Education&#8211; Southern University, Greensboro; B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1904; LL.B., University of Alabama, 1908. Admitted to Alabama bar, 1908.\u00a0 Private law\u00a0practice, Monroeville, 1908; Alabama House of Representatives, 1906-1911; prosecuting attorney, 1st Judicial Circuit of Alabama, 1911-1919; U.S. Congress, 1918-1935; Co-author, Tydings-McDuffie Act; Democratic Whip of the House, 1930-1932 (nominated John Nance Garner for vice president); U.S. Judge, Southern District, Alabama, 1935-1950. Died November 1, 1950.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To Inquiring Friends, If Any; Autobiography. Mobile, Ala.; Azalea City Printers, s.d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of John McDuffie are held by the Hoole Special Collections Department at the Libraries of the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, U. S. congressman, judge. Born&#8211; September 25, 1883, River Ridge, Monroe County, Ala. Parents&#8211; John and Virginia Marion (Lett) McDuffie. Married&#8211; Cornelia Hixon, October 20, 1915 (died 1935). Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Mary (Clarke) Maxon, September 18, 1941. Education&#8211; Southern University, Greensboro; B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1904; LL.B., University of Alabama, 1908. Admitted to [&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-1774","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\/1774","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=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}