{"id":1389,"date":"2011-06-03T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:15:57","slug":"gallant-thomas-grady-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"GALLANT, THOMAS GRADY, 1920-2009."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; newspaper editor. Born&#8211; June 14, 1920, Gadsden. Parents&#8211; Thomas Grady and Louise (Ralls) Gallant. Married&#8211; Micheal Ann Snider, March 18, 1946. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Studied at Emory University, 1939-1941, 1946-1947. Served in U.S. Marine Corps, 1941-1945. Editor, Cleveland, Tenn. Daily Banner, 1947-1948; reporter, Chattanooga News\/Free Press, 1948-1963; columnist, Chattanooga Post, 1966-1970; Nashville Banner, 1971-74; information officer, Tennessee Office of the Comptroller and Treasury, Nashville, 1974. Reported on many important events of the\u00a0middle and later 20th century; published articles and photographs.\u00a0Publicity director, Cherokee, N.C., Historical Association, 1959-1961. Member, Museum Advisory Panel for Tennessee Arts Commission, 1974.\u00a0 Died November 10, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary<strong>, <\/strong>Cleveland Daily Banner, November 12, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Friendly Dead. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Valor&#8217;s Side. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist; newspaper editor. Born&#8211; June 14, 1920, Gadsden. Parents&#8211; Thomas Grady and Louise (Ralls) Gallant. Married&#8211; Micheal Ann Snider, March 18, 1946. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Studied at Emory University, 1939-1941, 1946-1947. Served in U.S. Marine Corps, 1941-1945. Editor, Cleveland, Tenn. Daily Banner, 1947-1948; reporter, Chattanooga News\/Free Press, 1948-1963; columnist, Chattanooga Post, 1966-1970; Nashville Banner, [&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-1389","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\/1389","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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7779,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/7779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}