{"id":1919,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1919"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"rushton, william james, iii, 1929-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"RUSHTON, WILLIAM JAMES, III, 1929-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Insurance executive.  Born&#8211;  April 23, 1929, Birmingham.  Parents&#8211;  William James and  Elizabeth (Perry) Rushton.  Married&#8211;  LaVona Price, August 19, 1955.  Children&#8211;  Three.  Education&#8211;  Princeton University, B.A., 1951; Birmingham-Southern College, honorary LL.D., 1981.  Served Protective Life Insurance, rising to chief executive officer.  Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1982; International Yearbook, and Stateman&#8217;s Who&#8217;s Who, 1982.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Sense of Quality, a Sense of Growth;  the Story of Protective Life.  New York;                       Newcomen Society in North America, 1977. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Insurance executive. Born&#8211; April 23, 1929, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William James and Elizabeth (Perry) Rushton. Married&#8211; LaVona Price, August 19, 1955. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Princeton University, B.A., 1951; Birmingham-Southern College, honorary LL.D., 1981. Served Protective Life Insurance, rising to chief executive officer. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Source: Who&#8217;s Who in [&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-1919","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\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}