{"id":1597,"date":"2018-08-09T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2018-08-13T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:44:31","slug":"lamonte-edward-shannon-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"LaMONTE, EDWARD SHANNON, 1943-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political scientist, college professor and administrator, municipal administration staff. Born&#8211; March 2, 1943, Columbus, Ohio. Parents&#8211; Charles and Pauline Shannon LaMonte. Married&#8211; Ruth, 1975. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Harvard University, B.A., 1965; University of Chicago, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1976. His doctoral study dealt with politics and welfare in Birmingham, Ala. from 1900 to 1975.\u00a0Worked at \u00a0Miles College, 1965-1966; assistant director, Center for Urban Affairs and teacher, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1969-1979; Chief administrative assistant, Mayor of Birmingham, 1979; Executive Secretary to the Mayor, 1980-897. Worked\u00a0at Birmingham-Southern, 1987-2009, as Director of the Office of International Programs and later as Director of Adult Studies. Served as interim superintendent, Birmingham City Schools, 1996. \u00a0Board Member&#8211; Birmingham Public Library; Crisis Center; Campus Counseling Center; Birmingham Historical Society; Greater Birmingham Ministries; Friends of Miles College.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E.S. LaMonte; bhamwiki.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Change and Continuity:\u00a0 The Administrations of David Vann and Richard Arrington Jr.\u00a0 Birmingham Public Library, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Faces of Birmingham, Past, Present, Future. Birmingham, Ala.; University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1977. (Narrative to accompany a photographic exhibition.)<\/p>\n<p>George B. Ward; Birmingham&#8217;s Urban Statesman. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Public Library, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900-1975.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa:\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham, Alabama 701 Comprehensive Assistance Plan; Housing Element, a Study. Birmingham, Ala.; University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1978?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Political scientist, college professor and administrator, municipal administration staff. Born&#8211; March 2, 1943, Columbus, Ohio. Parents&#8211; Charles and Pauline Shannon LaMonte. Married&#8211; Ruth, 1975. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Harvard University, B.A., 1965; University of Chicago, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1976. His doctoral study dealt with politics and welfare in Birmingham, Ala. from 1900 to 1975.\u00a0Worked at [&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-1597","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\/1597","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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8614,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}