{"id":1460,"date":"2018-06-14T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T17:39:36","slug":"howard-milford-w-1862-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"HOWARD, MILFORD WRIARSON, 1862-1937"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, congressman,\u00a0entrepreneur, writer. \u00a0Born&#8211; December 12, 1862, Rome, Ga. Parents&#8211;Stephen Oliver and Martha Ann\u00a0Maddry Howard.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Sarah &#8220;Sallie&#8221; Lankford, December 2, 1883. Children&#8211;three. Married&#8211;Stella Vivian Harper, November 9, 1926. Little formal education; largely self-taught. Admitted to the bar, 1881, and practiced law in Fort Payne; prosecuting attorney, Dekalb County, four years; city attorney, Fort Payne, two terms; chairman, Dekalb County Democratic Executive Committee; elected as a populist to the U.S. Congress from Alabama&#8217;s 7th District and served 1895-1897. Moved to California in 1918; worked for a time in the silent film industry.\u00a0 Produced and starred in a film based on his novel <em>The Bishop of the Ozarks.\u00a0<\/em> Travelled through Europe in the 1920&#8217;s and wrote a column &#8220;Vagabond Sketches&#8221; for the Birmingham News. Engaged in several business and philanthropic projects, including the &#8220;Master Schools&#8221; for\u00a0mountain children and the &#8220;Scenic Highway&#8221; from Gadsden to Chattanooga.\u00a0 Died December 28, 1937.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online; Encyclopedia of Alabama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American Plutocracy. New York; Holland Pub. Co., 1895.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of the Ozarks. Los Angeles; Times Mirror Press, 1920.<\/p>\n<p>Fascism, a Challenge to Democracy. New York; Fleming H. Revell Co., 1928.<\/p>\n<p>If Christ Came to Congress. New York; Howard Pub. Co., 1896.<\/p>\n<p>Peggy Ware. Los Angeles; J. F. Rowny Press, 1921.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, congressman,\u00a0entrepreneur, writer. \u00a0Born&#8211; December 12, 1862, Rome, Ga. Parents&#8211;Stephen Oliver and Martha Ann\u00a0Maddry Howard.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Sarah &#8220;Sallie&#8221; Lankford, December 2, 1883. Children&#8211;three. Married&#8211;Stella Vivian Harper, November 9, 1926. Little formal education; largely self-taught. Admitted to the bar, 1881, and practiced law in Fort Payne; prosecuting attorney, Dekalb County, four years; city attorney, Fort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","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=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}