{"id":1257,"date":"2011-03-09T15:15:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2018-01-25T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:40:29","slug":"dowell-spright-1878-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"DOWELL, SPRIGHT, 1878-1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator; college and university president. Born&#8211; January 2, 1878, Wake County, N.C. Parents&#8211; George James and Trannia (Yates) Dowell. Married&#8211; Camille Early, December 28, 1898. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Wake Forest College, A.B., 1896; Teacher&#8217;s College of Columbia University, A.M.,\u00a0\u00a01911. Served as elementary school principal in Shelby County, 1898-1900; high school principal at Columbiana, 1900-1906; school superintendent at East Lake, 1906-1909; principal of Barrett School in Birmingham, 1909-1913; chief clerk, Alabama Department of Education, 1915-1917; State Superintendent of Education, 1917-1920; president of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1920-1928; president of Mercer University, 1929-1953. Served as secretary and president of the Conference of Church-Related Colleges of the Southwest; vice president of the Georgia Education Association; president of the Georgia Association of Colleges; member Southern Baptist Education Commission.\u00a0 Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law, University of Alabama, 1920; Howard\u00a0 College, 1928; Baylor University, 1945; Wake Forest University, 1950. Died February 24, 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online\u00a0and the files at Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Columbus Roberts: Christian Steward Extraordinary.\u00a0\u00a0Nashville; Broadman, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>A History of Mercer University, 1833-1953. Macon, Ga.; Mercer University, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collections of papers of Spright Dowell are held by the libraries of Auburn University and Mercer University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator; college and university president. Born&#8211; January 2, 1878, Wake County, N.C. Parents&#8211; George James and Trannia (Yates) Dowell. Married&#8211; Camille Early, December 28, 1898. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Wake Forest College, A.B., 1896; Teacher&#8217;s College of Columbia University, A.M.,\u00a0\u00a01911. Served as elementary school principal in Shelby County, 1898-1900; high school principal at Columbiana, 1900-1906; [&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-1257","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\/1257","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=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}