{"id":1046,"date":"2011-05-05T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:06:11","slug":"dawson-john-charles-1876-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"DAWSON, JOHN CHARLES, 1876-1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor\u00a0 of French language and literature;\u00a0college administrator; \u00a0college president. Born&#8211; Aug. 10, 1876, Huntsville. Parents&#8211; Granville J. and Alice (Roberts) Dawson. Married &#8212; Fletcher Stinson, 1906 (died 1927). Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211; Avis Marshall, December 25,1930 (died 1938). \u00a0Education&#8211; Georgetown College, Kentucky, A.B., 1901; Howard College, M.A., 1910; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1921. Principal of Scottsboro Baptist Institute, 1901-03; taught at Howard College, 1903-1917; dean, 1917; acting president, 1917, 1921; president, 1921-31. Head, Department of Romance Languages, \u00a0University of Alabama, 1930-1947; Howard Payne College, 1947-1948. Also taught at Western State College, 1923, and the University of Toulouse, 1919. Editor of Howard College Studies in History and Literature, 1921-1930. Contributed to various periodicals, including Romantic Review and Modern Language Notes. Member of the educational board of the Southern Baptist Convention; president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Member of Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa and the\u00a0Authors&#8217; Club of London.\u00a0Awarded the honorary D.D. by Howard College, 1918. Received the\u00a0Officer d&#8217;Academie decoration from the French government. Died April 9, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p>James F. Sulzby, Jr., Toward a History of Samford University.\u00a0 Samford University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A French Regicide in Alabama. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1939.<\/p>\n<p>Lakanal the Regicide. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Picard&#8217;s &#8216;La Petite Ville.&#8221;\u00a0 Ginn and Company, 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1919.<\/p>\n<p>Toulouse in the Renaissance. New York; Columbia University Press, 1923.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor\u00a0 of French language and literature;\u00a0college administrator; \u00a0college president. Born&#8211; Aug. 10, 1876, Huntsville. Parents&#8211; Granville J. and Alice (Roberts) Dawson. Married &#8212; Fletcher Stinson, 1906 (died 1927). Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211; Avis Marshall, December 25,1930 (died 1938). \u00a0Education&#8211; Georgetown College, Kentucky, A.B., 1901; Howard College, M.A., 1910; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1921. Principal of Scottsboro Baptist [&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-1046","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\/1046","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=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}