{"id":1311,"date":"2018-04-30T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2018-04-30T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:42:56","slug":"hall-grover-cleveland-1884-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"HALL, GROVER CLEVELAND, 1884-1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newspaper editor. Born&#8211; January 11, 1888, Haleburg. Parents&#8211; William Rabun and Parmelia Ann (Davis) Hall. Married&#8211; Claudia McCurdy English, May 14, 1912. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama country schools. Printer&#8217;s devil in Dothan, 1905; editor, Enterprise Ledger, 1907; Dothan Daily Siftings, 1908; managing editor, Selma Times, 1909; editorial writer, Pensacola Journal, 1910; associate editor and editor, Montgomery Advertiser, 1910-1941.\u00a0 Appointed probate judge in Montgomery County,\u00a01933, served 1933-34 but was defeated for re-election. Served in Alabama National Guard, 1906-1908. Member of personnel board of State Merit System. First Southern editor to support Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency.\u00a0 Argued for release of the Scottsboro boys. Winner of $500 Pulitzer Prize for &#8220;best editorial writing in 1928&#8221; for editorials in the Advertiser against gangism, flogging, and racial and religious intolerance. Died January 9, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Hollis, An Alabama Newspaper Tradition. University of Alabama Press, 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Egregious Gentile Called to Account. Montgomery, Ala.; Montgomery Advertiser, 1939. (published in the U.S. Congressional Record, January 17, 1939.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Newspaper editor. Born&#8211; January 11, 1888, Haleburg. Parents&#8211; William Rabun and Parmelia Ann (Davis) Hall. Married&#8211; Claudia McCurdy English, May 14, 1912. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama country schools. Printer&#8217;s devil in Dothan, 1905; editor, Enterprise Ledger, 1907; Dothan Daily Siftings, 1908; managing editor, Selma Times, 1909; editorial writer, Pensacola Journal, 1910; associate editor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","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=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7945,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/7945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}