{"id":1469,"date":"2018-06-12T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2018-06-12T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:41:57","slug":"hornady-john-randolph-jr-1872-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"HORNADY, JOHN RANDOLPH, JR., 1872-1948"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist. Born&#8211; May 15, 1872, in Ringgold, Ga. Parents&#8211; John Randolph and Janie Lawton (Mulkey) Hornady. Married&#8211; Maude Morella Simmons, November 28, 1896. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Educated by his mother until her death when he was ten years old. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1895-1921, as reporter, city editor, managing editor, and associate editor (1908-1915);\u00a0 worked one year for the Cincinnati Enquirer; served as editor, Rome, Ga., News Tribune after 1930. Served as Commissioner for Health and Education on the Birmingham City Commission, 1915-21; advocated for increased funding for schools.\u00a0\u00a0Chairman, Coosa-Alabama River Improvement Association. Author of a series of twelve articles on short ballot principles and commission government. Published articles in McClure&#8217;s, Metropolitan, and Leslie&#8217;s. Died March 1, 1948.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography; Marquis who&#8217;s who online; bhamwiki<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atlanta, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. S.l.; American Cities Book Co., 1922.<\/p>\n<p>The Book of Birmingham. New York; Dodd, 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Editorials of J. R. H. Birmingham:\u00a0 Roberts &amp; Son, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers of Progress and Industry. New York; Dodd, 1930.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist. Born&#8211; May 15, 1872, in Ringgold, Ga. Parents&#8211; John Randolph and Janie Lawton (Mulkey) Hornady. Married&#8211; Maude Morella Simmons, November 28, 1896. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Educated by his mother until her death when he was ten years old. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1895-1921, as reporter, city editor, managing editor, and associate editor [&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-1469","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\/1469","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=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}