{"id":1623,"date":"2014-08-15T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2014-08-15T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T20:10:31","slug":"jones-walter-burgwyn-1888-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"JONES, WALTER BURGWYN, 1888-1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, judge. Born&#8211; Oct. 16, 1888, Montgomery, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Goode (later governor of Alabama) and Georgene Caroline (Bird) Jones. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1906-1907; University of Alabama Law School, L.L.B., 1909. Active in elective, appointive, and volunteer positions in state and civic organizations. Appointed Judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit, Montgomery County, 1920; presiding judge, 1935-. Began a weekly column, &#8220;Off the Bench&#8221; for the Montgomery Advertiser in 1924; chairman, Board of Trustees, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 1945; fellow of the American Bar Association; member, American Law Institute; president, Alabama State Bar, 1954-1955; founder, Jones Law School, Montgomery, 1928; founder, Alabama Lawyer, official publication of the Alabama State Bar, 1940. Member; St. John&#8217;s Episcopal Church, Montgomery, and senior warden and teacher of the Young Men&#8217;s Bible Class. Awarded an honorary L.L.D., University of Alabama, 1955. Died August 1, 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grove&#8217;s Library of Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addresses and Papers of Judge Walter B. Jones. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Circuit Judges Handbook. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Jury Instructions, with Forms. 2 vols. St. Paul, Minn.; West, 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Lawyers Handbook. Montgomery, Ala.; Junior Bar of Alabama, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Pleading and Practice at Law. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Practice and Forms; &#8230;. St. Paul, Minn.; West, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Citizenship and Voting in Alabama; &#8230;. Montgomery, Ala.; American Citizens Press, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Equity Pleading and Practice. S.l.; s.n., 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Huntly Cabin Papers. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1955.<\/p>\n<p>A Student&#8217;s Equity Pleading. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1923.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Confederate War Poems. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, judge. Born&#8211; Oct. 16, 1888, Montgomery, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Goode (later governor of Alabama) and Georgene Caroline (Bird) Jones. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1906-1907; University of Alabama Law School, L.L.B., 1909. Active in elective, appointive, and volunteer positions in state and civic organizations. Appointed Judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit, Montgomery County, 1920; [&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-1623","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\/1623","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=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}