{"id":1406,"date":"2014-01-31T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2018-07-17T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T16:08:24","slug":"johnson-robert-erwin-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON, ROBERT ERWIN, 1923-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian, university professor of history. Born&#8211; February 3, 1923, Coos Bay, Or. Parents&#8211; Franz Oscar and Agnes (Sandquist) Johnson. Married&#8211; Vivian Ellis, December 19, 1959. Education&#8211; University of Oregon, B.A., 1951, M.A., 1953; Claremont Graduate School, Ph.D., 1956. U.S. Coast Guard, 1941-1946; active duty U.S. Naval Reserve, 1951-1952.\u00a0Taught history at the\u00a0University of Alabama, 1956-1993. Member; American Historical Association; Society for Nautical Research; Naval Historical Foundation; United States Naval Institute; Phi Beta Kappa.\u00a0 Died January 28, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Obituary, Tuscaloosa News.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bering Sea Escort:\u00a0 Life Aboard a Coast Guard Cutter in World War II.\u00a0 Annapolis:\u00a0 Naval Institute Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard-manned Naval Vessels in World War II.\u00a0 Washington DC:\u00a0 Coast Guard Historian&#8217;s Office, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Far China Station; the U.S. Navy in Asian Waters, 1800-1898. Annapolis, Md.; Naval Institute Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians of the Sea; History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present. Annapolis, Md.; Naval Institute Press, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Rear Admiral John Rodgers, 1812-1882. Annapolis, Md.; U.S. Naval Institute, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Thence Round Cape Horn; the Story of the United States Naval Forces on Pacific Station, 1818-1923. Annapolis, Md.; U.S. Naval Institute, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian, university professor of history. Born&#8211; February 3, 1923, Coos Bay, Or. Parents&#8211; Franz Oscar and Agnes (Sandquist) Johnson. Married&#8211; Vivian Ellis, December 19, 1959. Education&#8211; University of Oregon, B.A., 1951, M.A., 1953; Claremont Graduate School, Ph.D., 1956. U.S. Coast Guard, 1941-1946; active duty U.S. Naval Reserve, 1951-1952.\u00a0Taught history at the\u00a0University of Alabama, 1956-1993. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","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=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}