{"id":1431,"date":"2011-09-27T10:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T17:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2018-07-11T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T18:32:45","slug":"jackson-walter-mahan-1898-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"JACKSON, WALTER MAHAN, 1898-1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, educational administrator. Born&#8211; March 5, 1898, Kentucky. Parents&#8211; Dave and Katherine Mahan Jackson.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Anna Bell Seymour. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Georgetown College, Kentucky, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A. Major, U. S. Army, WWII.\u00a0Worked for\u00a0Selma public schools, 1920-1942; principal of Selma Junior and Selma Senior High School; acting superintendent of education, 1937; superintendent, 1938;\u00a0 superintendent of schools, Decatur, Ala., 1946-1956. Member; Alabama Education Association; instrumental in establishing Alabama State Teachers Retirement system, served on its board. One of the founders of the North Alabama Historical Association. Died March 14, 1956.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at the Alabama Department of Archives and History; Alabama&#8217;s First United States Vice-President; The Story of Selma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s First United States Vice-President; William Rufus King. Decatur, Ala.; Decatur Printing Co., 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The First Hundred Years; a History of the Selma Baptist Church of Christ, commonly known as the First Baptist Church of Selma. Selma, Ala.; s.n., 1942.<\/p>\n<p>History of Alabama for Junior High Schools. Montgomery, Ala.; Dixie Book Co., 1938.<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Selma. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1954.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, educational administrator. Born&#8211; March 5, 1898, Kentucky. Parents&#8211; Dave and Katherine Mahan Jackson.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Anna Bell Seymour. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Georgetown College, Kentucky, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A. Major, U. S. Army, WWII.\u00a0Worked for\u00a0Selma public schools, 1920-1942; principal of Selma Junior and Selma Senior High School; acting superintendent of education, 1937; superintendent, 1938;\u00a0 superintendent [&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-1431","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\/1431","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=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8363,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}