{"id":1901,"date":"2015-07-10T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2015-07-10T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:19:55","slug":"saunders-harris-jr-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1901","title":{"rendered":"SAUNDERS, HARRIS, JR., 1925-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business executive. Born&#8211; Jan. 26, 1925, in Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Harris and Zoe Reed (Black) Saunders. Married&#8211; Jean Rowan, Aug. 9, 1949. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. (M.E.), 1945.\u00a0 U. S. Navy, WWII. Executive positions in Saunders Leasing Systems; helped expand it into the third-largest truck-leasing system in the country.\u00a0 Member of Board of Directors, SouthTrust National Bank;\u00a0 Hudson Thompson Co., Energen. Founding chair of Truck Rental and Leasing Association; member American Truck Historical Association.\u00a0 Chair of U.S. Business and Industrial Council.\u00a0 Elected to Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame, 1997; received Georgia Tech School of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award, 1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top Up or Down?; the Origin and Development of the Automobile and Truck Renting and Leasing Industry&#8211;56 Years, 1916-1972. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Business executive. Born&#8211; Jan. 26, 1925, in Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Harris and Zoe Reed (Black) Saunders. Married&#8211; Jean Rowan, Aug. 9, 1949. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. (M.E.), 1945.\u00a0 U. S. Navy, WWII. Executive positions in Saunders Leasing Systems; helped expand it into the third-largest truck-leasing system in the country.\u00a0 Member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","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=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}