{"id":1419,"date":"2012-10-02T14:39:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2018-07-11T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T19:15:05","slug":"jenkins-william-harrison-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"JENKINS, WILLIAM HARRISON, 1905-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, educational administrator, legislator. Born&#8211; May 29, 1905, Decatur, Ala. Parents&#8211; George Luckey and Myrtis (Schuessler) Jenkins. Married&#8211; Margaret Payne, September 15, 1933. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1927; Emory University, M.S., 1931. Taught at Selma High School, 1931-1937; principal, Waverly School, 1937-1941; principal, Greensboro Schools, 1941-1948; principal, Decatur High School, 1948- ; legislator from Chambers County, 1938-1942. Member; Pi Kappa Alpha; Omicron Delta Kappa; Kappa Phi Kappa; Rotary Club; Masonic Order; Democratic Party; Methodist Church.\u00a0 Died December 10,\u00a01981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grove&#8217;s Library of Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Story of Decatur, Alabama. Decatur, Ala.; Mayor and Council of Decatur, 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, educational administrator, legislator. Born&#8211; May 29, 1905, Decatur, Ala. Parents&#8211; George Luckey and Myrtis (Schuessler) Jenkins. Married&#8211; Margaret Payne, September 15, 1933. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1927; Emory University, M.S., 1931. Taught at Selma High School, 1931-1937; principal, Waverly School, 1937-1941; principal, Greensboro Schools, 1941-1948; principal, Decatur High School, 1948- [&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-1419","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\/1419","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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8370,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}