{"id":1234,"date":"2011-05-05T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:11:20","slug":"easby-smith-james-stanislaus-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"EASBY-SMITH, JAMES STANISLAUS, 1870-1948"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney; writer. Born&#8211; May 17, 1870, Tuscaloosa. Parents&#8211; William Russell Smith (President of the University of Alabama)\u00a0and Wilhelmina Maria (Easby) Smith. Married&#8211; Lillian L. Strong, June 5, 1894. Education&#8211; Georgetown College (Washington) A.B.; A.M., 1892; LL.B.; LL.M., 1894.\u00a0 Served in the JAG department, U.S.Army, in World War I; reached the rank of colonel. Served as associate editor Georgetown College Journal; editor, 1891. Admitted to the bar, 1894. Employed as law examiner for the Department of Justice, 1893-1896; special assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1896; pardon attorney, Department of Justice, 1899-1904; assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, 1904-1906.\u00a0\u00a0Practiced law in Washington. Quizmaster (instructor) at Georgetown College Law School; taught constitutional history at Georgetown, 1905.\u00a0 Published many articles, poems, and stories. Died September 26, 1948.\u00a0 Buried in Arlington Cemetery.<\/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>The Department of Justice, Its History and Functions. Washington, D.C.; W. H. Lowdermilk, 1904.<\/p>\n<p>History of Georgetown University, D.C., 1789-1907. New York; Lewis, 1907.<\/p>\n<p>The New Napolean: A Satire.\u00a0 Washington: Stormont &amp; Jackson, 1896.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor_Translator;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Songs of Alcaeus. Washington, D.C.; W. H. Lowdermilk, 1901.<\/p>\n<p>The Songs of Sappho. Washington, D.C.; Stormant &amp; Jackson, 1891-1901.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Attorney; writer. Born&#8211; May 17, 1870, Tuscaloosa. Parents&#8211; William Russell Smith (President of the University of Alabama)\u00a0and Wilhelmina Maria (Easby) Smith. Married&#8211; Lillian L. Strong, June 5, 1894. Education&#8211; Georgetown College (Washington) A.B.; A.M., 1892; LL.B.; LL.M., 1894.\u00a0 Served in the JAG department, U.S.Army, in World War I; reached the rank of colonel. Served [&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-1234","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\/1234","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=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}