{"id":1498,"date":"2014-08-21T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T19:51:11","slug":"highsaw-robert-baker-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"HIGHSAW, ROBERT BAKER, 1917-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political scientist; university professor. Born– December 20, 1917, in Memphis, Tenn. Parents– James Leonard and Mary (Baker) Highsaw. Married–Mary Church Wagner,\u00a0March 3, 1943. Children–two. Education– Princeton University, A.B., 1939; Harvard University, A.M., 1942; Ph.D., 1945.\u00a0\u00a0 Taught at Vanderbilt University, 1942-1944; Louisiana State University, 1944-1945; associate professor and director of Bureau of Public Administration and Chairman of the Department of Research in Business and Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1945-1955; professor, director of the Bureau of Public Administration, and head of the Department of Political Science, University of Alabama, 1956-1982. Awarded the status of professor emeritus on his retirement at Alabama. \u00a0Died November 17, 2009.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who’s Who in America, 1982; obituary.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Administering Mississippi’s Wealth. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1949.<\/p>\n

A Handbook of Elective Offices in Mississippi. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1947.<\/p>\n

Mississippi’s Wealth. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1947.<\/p>\n

Money for the Cities of Mississippi. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1947.<\/p>\n

Municipal Government in the South. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1952.<\/p>\n

Natural Resources in an Informed Public. University, Miss.; Southern Public Adminstration, 1954.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aids for Governing …. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1948.<\/p>\n

Clarksdale, a Fiscal Picture. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1947.<\/p>\n

Conflict and Change in Local Government. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1966.<\/p>\n

Dixie City Acts; …. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1962.<\/p>\n

Essays on Public Administration. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1962.<\/p>\n

Forms of Municipal Government in Mississippi. 3rd. ed. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1947.<\/p>\n

The Government and Administration of Mississippi. New York; Crowell, 1954.<\/p>\n

The Growth of State Administration in Mississippi. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1949.<\/p>\n

A Guidebook for the County Sheriff. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1948.<\/p>\n

A Guidebook for the County Superintendent of Education. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1951.<\/p>\n

Highlights of State Finance. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1948.<\/p>\n

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:\u00a0 A Revenue Study. University of Alabama Bureau of Public Administration, 1955.<\/p>\n

Units of Government in Mississippi. University, Miss.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi, 1949.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Deep South in Transformation. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1964.<\/p>\n

Edward Douglas White; Defender of the Conservative Faith. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1981.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Communication in Public Administration. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Political scientist; university professor. Born– December 20, 1917, in Memphis, Tenn. Parents– James Leonard and Mary (Baker) Highsaw. Married–Mary Church Wagner,\u00a0March 3, 1943. Children–two. Education– Princeton University, A.B., 1939; Harvard University, A.M., 1942; Ph.D., 1945.\u00a0\u00a0 Taught at Vanderbilt University, 1942-1944; Louisiana State University, 1944-1945; associate professor and director of Bureau of Public Administration and […]<\/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-1498","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\/1498","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=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8171,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}