{"id":1025,"date":"2014-10-29T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T21:55:49","slug":"dickson-thomas-inches-jr-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"DICKSON, THOMAS INCHES, JR., 1923-1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign service officer; professor of political science. Born&#8211; October 17, 1923, New York, N.Y. Parents&#8211;Thomas I Dickson Sr. and Isabel Anna Keo Dickson. Married&#8211;Mona Faye Carroll, September 28,\u00a0\u00a01948. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; University of Texas, B.A., 1943; M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1951. Worked as research associate in tax administration for the Texas Legislative Council, 1951-1952; as a foreign officer in the U.S. State Department, 1952-1968; as a professor of political science at\u00a0Auburn University, 1968. Served as member of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and General Staff College, 1969-1973; N.S.F. Participant in Math Applications in Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1971; project director, training\/education master plan for criminal justice personnel, Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency, 1973-1974; research director for the Alabama Development Office&#8217;s County Finance Study, 1976-1977. President Auburn-Guatemala City Partners. Member Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies; International Studies Association; American Political Science Association.\u00a0 Died September 20, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Men and Women of Science, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Land Use in Alabama&#8217;s Counties. Auburn, Ala.; Office of Public Service and Research, School of Arts and Sciences, Auburn University, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of County Finance Trends in Alabama, 1950-75.\u00a0 Auburn University, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Expenditures of Alabama Counties. Montgomery, Ala.; State Planning Division, Alabama Development Office, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Income to Alabama Counties. Montgomery, Ala.; State Planning Division, Alabama Development Office, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>A Summary of County Finance Trends in Alabama, 1950-1975. Auburn, Ala.; Office of Public Service and Research, School of Arts and Sciences, Auburn University, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Trends in Legal Authority to Raise Revenue; Alabama Counties. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Development Office, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Foreign service officer; professor of political science. Born&#8211; October 17, 1923, New York, N.Y. Parents&#8211;Thomas I Dickson Sr. and Isabel Anna Keo Dickson. Married&#8211;Mona Faye Carroll, September 28,\u00a0\u00a01948. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; University of Texas, B.A., 1943; M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1951. Worked as research associate in tax administration for the Texas Legislative Council, 1951-1952; as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7382,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}