{"id":1785,"date":"2018-10-30T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:52:10","slug":"mccord-leon-clarence-1878-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"McCORD, LEON CLARENCE, 1878-1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer, judge. Born&#8211; June 21, 1878, Conyers, Ga. Parents&#8211; Henry and Ellen Grant (Davis) McCord.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Bobbie Tanner, February 20, 1906.Education&#8211; Vanderbilt University; studied law under Jesse E. Brown, Scottsboro. Practiced law in Scottsboro, 1900-1903; secretary of the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1903-1909;\u00a0private practice in Montgomery, 1910-1916; State Railroad Commissioner, 1911-1915; Judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, 1916-1935; presiding judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 5th District, 1938-52.\u00a0 Democratic candidate for governor of Alabama, 1934. Died February 11, 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal judges website\u00a0and\u00a0 New York Times, February 12, 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I Believe in Man. New York; Harper &amp; Brothers, 1929.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Lawyer, judge. Born&#8211; June 21, 1878, Conyers, Ga. Parents&#8211; Henry and Ellen Grant (Davis) McCord.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Bobbie Tanner, February 20, 1906.Education&#8211; Vanderbilt University; studied law under Jesse E. Brown, Scottsboro. Practiced law in Scottsboro, 1900-1903; secretary of the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1903-1909;\u00a0private practice in Montgomery, 1910-1916; State Railroad Commissioner, 1911-1915; Judge of the 15th [&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-1785","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\/1785","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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9026,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}