{"id":1426,"date":"2011-09-29T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2018-07-06T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:14:20","slug":"james-powhatan-wright-1880-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"JAMES, POWHATAN WRIGHT, 1880-1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College president; Baptist\u00a0clergyman, teacher. Born&#8211; December 29, 1880, Virginia. Parents; Fleet H. and Harriet Elizabeth Kelly James. Married&#8211; Jessie Jenkins Truett (daughter of prominent Baptist minister George W. Truett). Children&#8211; Three. Practiced law in Virginia before entering the clergy. Education&#8211; Seminary in Alabama, graduated 1913. Pastor of churches in Selma; Dallas, Tex.; Nashville, Tenn.; Lynchburg, Va.; and First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala. (1933-44); taught English Bible, University of Alabama; served as president, Bethel College, Hendersonville, Ky., 1944 . \u00a0Editor, Kappa Alpha Journal; member, Board of Trustees of Baptist Bible Institute, New Orleans, La.\u00a0 Died December 10, 1956.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.<\/p>\n<p>R.L. Guffin, Legacy of Love, History of First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, available on church website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifty Years of Baylor University Hospital. Dallas?; s.n., 1953.<\/p>\n<p>George W. Truett, a Biography. New York; Macmillan, 1939.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons for Christian Education. Waco, Tex.; Education Board, Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1915.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The George W. Truett Library. 4 vols. Grand Rapids, Mich.; Baker Book House, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 2011-07-06<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: College president; Baptist\u00a0clergyman, teacher. Born&#8211; December 29, 1880, Virginia. Parents; Fleet H. and Harriet Elizabeth Kelly James. Married&#8211; Jessie Jenkins Truett (daughter of prominent Baptist minister George W. Truett). Children&#8211; Three. Practiced law in Virginia before entering the clergy. Education&#8211; Seminary in Alabama, graduated 1913. Pastor of churches in Selma; Dallas, Tex.; Nashville, Tenn.; [&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-1426","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\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}