{"id":1592,"date":"2014-05-29T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:45:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:45:59","slug":"larson-james-edward-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"LARSON, JAMES EDWARD, 1916-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political scientist, university professor. Born&#8211; Nov. 16, 1915, Woodstock, Ill. Parents&#8211; Gustave A. and Clara (Turner) Larson. Married&#8211; Eleanor Lucille Kvasnicka, June 11, 1943. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Cornell University, B.A., 1940; University of Michigan, M.A., 1947; Ph.D., 1952. U.S. Naval Reserve, 1940-1946; administrative analyst, Michigan Budget Office, 1948-1949; research associate, Bureau of Government, West Virginia University, 1949-1952; director of research, Institute of Public Administration, University of the Philippines, 1952-1954; professor, University of Alabama, 1955-1963; Head of the Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina, 1964-1980. Member&#8211; National Tax Association; Southern Political Science Association; American Association of University Professors. Died July 10, 1914.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1974; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s Inland Waterways. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The City Government of Huntsville, Alabama. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1958.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Flint Tax Limitation Experiment. Ann Arbor, Mich.; Institute for Human Adjustment, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>How Cities are Organized. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Intergovernmental Relations in West Virginia. Morgantown, W.Va.; Bureau for Government Research, West Virginia University, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Reapportionment and the Courts; a Survey of Recent Cases. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Reapportionment in Alabama. Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>A Report on City and County Budgets, 1952. Morgantown, W.Va.; Bureau for Government Research, West Virginia University, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Problems in Alabama. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia; a Report on the Economy. Morgantown, W.Va.; Bureau for Government Research, West Virginia University, 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Methods of Financing Sewers and Sewage Treatment Works in West Virginia. Morgantown, W.V.; Bureau for Government Research, West Virginia University, 1952.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Political scientist, university professor. Born&#8211; Nov. 16, 1915, Woodstock, Ill. Parents&#8211; Gustave A. and Clara (Turner) Larson. Married&#8211; Eleanor Lucille Kvasnicka, June 11, 1943. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Cornell University, B.A., 1940; University of Michigan, M.A., 1947; Ph.D., 1952. U.S. Naval Reserve, 1940-1946; administrative analyst, Michigan Budget Office, 1948-1949; research associate, Bureau of Government, West [&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-1592","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\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}