{"id":1807,"date":"2014-09-15T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2016-04-15T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:07:53","slug":"price-ralph-shorty-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"PRICE, RALPH (&#8220;SHORTY&#8221;), 1921-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Insurance representative; political candidate. \u00a0Born&#8211; October 3, 1921, Louisville. Parents&#8211; John Patterson and Rosa (Pickett) Price. Married&#8211; Delores Bigham, June 3, 1960. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama School of Law. Employed as representative for United American Insurance Company. Served in the U.S. Army, 1942-1946, receiving the Purple Heart, four campaign stars and presidential unit citation. Ran unsuccessfully for political \u00a0office several times; Candidate for Alabama governor, 1958, 1970, 1974, 1978. . Member of the V.F.W., American Legion, and the President&#8217;s Club of the United American Insurance Company of Dallas. Known for his colorful dress and behavior and his support for University of Alabama football.\u00a0 Died November 1, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. III.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Politics; Tell It Like It Is. New York; Vantage Press, 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Insurance representative; political candidate. \u00a0Born&#8211; October 3, 1921, Louisville. Parents&#8211; John Patterson and Rosa (Pickett) Price. Married&#8211; Delores Bigham, June 3, 1960. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama School of Law. Employed as representative for United American Insurance Company. Served in the U.S. Army, 1942-1946, receiving the Purple Heart, four campaign stars and presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","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=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}