{"id":1855,"date":"2013-05-09T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2013-05-09T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:34:56","slug":"patrick-luther-1891-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"PATRICK, LUTHER, 1891-1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, congressman, radio commentator. Born&#8211; January 23, 1891, Morgan County. Parents&#8211; Frank R. and Nancy Lucretia (Cobbs) Patrick. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Alabama, Purdue University, and Louisiana State University (electrical engineering); University of Alabama Law School, 1918. Served in U.S. Army, 1919. Admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1919. Served as city attorney for Fairfield, 1920-1922; assistant attorney general of Alabama, 1929-1931; assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of Alabama, 1934-1937; U.S. Congressman from the Ninth District of Alabama, 1937-1943 and 1945-1947; radio commentator in Birmingham (WAPI and WBRC), 1925-1937. Member of the law firm of Patrick and Newman. Died May 26, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Story of Alabama, Vol. 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friends, Neighbors, Kinfolks. Prairie City, Ill.; 1946.<\/p>\n<p>Goosepocket. Birmingham, Ala.; Vulcan Press, 1915.<\/p>\n<p>Hope Ye&#8217;re Livin&#8217; and Doin&#8217; Well. Birmingham, Ala.; A. H. Cather Co., 1931.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Luther Patrick is held by the Ralph Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, congressman, radio commentator. Born&#8211; January 23, 1891, Morgan County. Parents&#8211; Frank R. and Nancy Lucretia (Cobbs) Patrick. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Alabama, Purdue University, and Louisiana State University (electrical engineering); University of Alabama Law School, 1918. Served in U.S. Army, 1919. Admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1919. Served as city attorney [&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-1855","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\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}