{"id":1322,"date":"2018-04-26T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:00:08","slug":"gwaltney-leslie-lee-1876-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"GWALTNEY, LESLIE LEE, 1876-1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptist minister. Born&#8211; March 5, 1876, in Elberon, Va. Parents&#8211; John Avington Merritt and Sarah Rebecca (Deering) Gwaltney. Married&#8211;Richie Thornton Peters, September 23, 1902.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. Education&#8211; University of Richmond, 1899-1904; Union Theological Seminary, 1904-1905; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.M.; Potomac University, STD, 1908. Ordained in 1902.\u00a0 Served churches in Prattville, Greenville, and Florence; editor, Alabama Baptist, 1919-1950; trustee, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; organized the Baptist Foundation. President Alabama Baptist State Convention, 1935-37; Alabama Temperance Alliance. Honorary Litt. D., Howard College, 1927. Died November 10, 1955.<\/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>Christ and Our Liberties. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Co., 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Forty of the Twentieth; or, The First Forty Years of the Twentieth Century. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Co. 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Herald of Freedom. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1939.<\/p>\n<p>Man&#8217;s Fairest Hope. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1925.<\/p>\n<p>A Message For Today on the Chariots of Fire. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Co., 1941.<\/p>\n<p>A Rosary of Facts. Birmingham Printing Company, 1936.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Baptist minister. Born&#8211; March 5, 1876, in Elberon, Va. Parents&#8211; John Avington Merritt and Sarah Rebecca (Deering) Gwaltney. Married&#8211;Richie Thornton Peters, September 23, 1902.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. Education&#8211; University of Richmond, 1899-1904; Union Theological Seminary, 1904-1905; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.M.; Potomac University, STD, 1908. Ordained in 1902.\u00a0 Served churches in Prattville, Greenville, and Florence; editor, [&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-1322","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\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7913,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}