{"id":1680,"date":"2013-09-17T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T21:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2013-09-17T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T21:07:58","slug":"morton-john-robert-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"MORTON, JOHN ROBERT, 1904-1981."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator; administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, \u00a0Tex., June 27, 1904. Parents&#8211; John R. and Frances (McKinnon) Morton. Married&#8211; June Sweetman, August 1, 1928. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; B.S., South West Texas State College, 1925; M.A., University of Texas, 1929; Ed.D., Columbia University, 1939; Ohio State University. Employed as a teacher, schools of Texas, 1925-1936; Public Works Agency, 1936-1937; director of extension teaching and professor of adult education, Mississippi State College, 1939-1944; director of continuing education, University of Alabama, 1944; dean of extension, University of Alabama, 1954. Died April 30, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. II.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0University Extension in the United States; a Study &#8230;. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1953.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s Resources and the Schools &#8230;. University, Ala.; Bureau of Educational Research, College of Education, University of Alabama, 1946.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator; administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, \u00a0Tex., June 27, 1904. Parents&#8211; John R. and Frances (McKinnon) Morton. Married&#8211; June Sweetman, August 1, 1928. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; B.S., South West Texas State College, 1925; M.A., University of Texas, 1929; Ed.D., Columbia University, 1939; Ohio State University. Employed as a teacher, schools of Texas, 1925-1936; Public [&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-1680","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\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}