{"id":1679,"date":"2013-09-17T13:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2013-09-18T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:38:38","slug":"morton-carl-p-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"MORTON, CARL P., 1920-1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business executive; poet. Born&#8211; Leeds, Ala., June 7, 1920. Parents&#8211; Hartwell Albert and Eunice (Pledger) Morton. Married&#8211; Isabel Gibbons, October 2, 1946. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Auburn University. Served with the U.S. Air Force, WWII,1941-1945; awarded the Bronze Star.\u00a0business executive, Hardy Corporation, 1946; president, Birmingham Mechanical Contractor&#8217;s Association.\u00a0 Member\u00a0Alabama Writers Conclave, Alabama State Poetry Society, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, advisory board, Auburn University School of Arts and Science.\u00a0\u00a0Poet Laureate of the state of Alabama, 1983-1987.\u00a0 Died February 20, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marks&#8217; Who Was Who in Alabama; \u00a0Pinpoint Press, Box 253, Florence, Ala..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Desiring Stone. Peterborough, N.H.; Windy Row Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>An Occasional Tyger. Birmingham:\u00a0 Woodview Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Author;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Scrod I: The Poetry of Carl P. Morton [and others]. Florence, Ala.; Pauper&#8217;s Press, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Business executive; poet. Born&#8211; Leeds, Ala., June 7, 1920. Parents&#8211; Hartwell Albert and Eunice (Pledger) Morton. Married&#8211; Isabel Gibbons, October 2, 1946. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Auburn University. Served with the U.S. Air Force, WWII,1941-1945; awarded the Bronze Star.\u00a0business executive, Hardy Corporation, 1946; president, Birmingham Mechanical Contractor&#8217;s Association.\u00a0 Member\u00a0Alabama Writers Conclave, Alabama State Poetry Society, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}