{"id":1438,"date":"2011-08-03T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2018-07-02T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T21:14:14","slug":"jackson-alto-loftin-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"JACKSON, ALTO LOFTIN, 1914-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney. Born&#8211; June 6, 1914, Clio. Parents&#8211; William Alto and Lula Jane (Loftin) Jackson. Married&#8211; Emma Pearl Norton, March 28, 1941. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1935, J.D. 1937. Admitted to the bar, 1937, and practiced law in Clio, 1937-1939 and after 1945; served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate\u00a0 Division, 1942-1945; taught at Troy University, 1967-2004.\u00a0 Served as Deputy Directory, Troy\u00a0University Fort Rucker branch.\u00a0 Member of \u00a0town council of Clio, 1948-1952; member and chair, Barbour County Board of Education. Member; Farrah Law Society, Wiregrass Historical Society, Alpha Kappa Psi, Methodist Church. One of the founders of the Amariah B. Stubbs Sr. Historical Association. Awarded emeritus status at Troy University, 2004.\u00a0 An endowed scholarship was created in his honor at the University of Alabama.\u00a0 Died July 16, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Troy Messenger, July 20, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clio, Alabama; a History. Clio, Ala.; Author, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>A Chronicle of My Remembering.\u00a0 1997<\/p>\n<p>Reflections.\u00a0 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So Mourns the Dove; Letters of a Confederate Infantryman and His Family. New York; Exposition Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 2011-08-03.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney. Born&#8211; June 6, 1914, Clio. Parents&#8211; William Alto and Lula Jane (Loftin) Jackson. Married&#8211; Emma Pearl Norton, March 28, 1941. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1935, J.D. 1937. Admitted to the bar, 1937, and practiced law in Clio, 1937-1939 and after 1945; served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate\u00a0 Division, 1942-1945; [&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-1438","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\/1438","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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}