{"id":1057,"date":"2012-10-11T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2017-12-13T15:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:25:20","slug":"davis-charles-shepard-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, CHARLES SHEPARD, 1910-1993."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor of history, college president. Born&#8211; August 13, 1910, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Matthew and Ruth (Shepard) Davis. Married&#8211; Mary Greenfield Merritt, June 6, 1936.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; Auburn Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1931; M.S., 1932; Duke University, Ph.D., 1938. U.S. Army Air Force, 1942-45. Assistant professor of history, Auburn, 1937-1942; Florida State University, 1947-1959; professor of history and president of Winthrop College, South Carolina, 1950-1973.\u00a0 Member of American Council on Education and International Association of College Presidents. Died April 13, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1973-1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colin J. McRae; Confederate Financial Agent. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Publishing Co., 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton Kingdom in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1939.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Report of Operations of the U.S. Seventh Army, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of Dr. Davis&#8217; tenure as president of Winthrop College are held by the Louise Pettus Archives at Winthrop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor of history, college president. Born&#8211; August 13, 1910, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Matthew and Ruth (Shepard) Davis. Married&#8211; Mary Greenfield Merritt, June 6, 1936.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; Auburn Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1931; M.S., 1932; Duke University, Ph.D., 1938. U.S. Army Air Force, 1942-45. Assistant professor of history, Auburn, 1937-1942; Florida State University, 1947-1959; professor of history [&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-1057","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\/1057","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=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}