{"id":1954,"date":"2014-08-12T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2018-05-24T08:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:31:41","slug":"rives-john-robert-thomas-1875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"RIVES, JOHN ROBERT THOMAS, 1875-1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Railroad conductor, union official;\u00a0elected official, Born&#8211; Shelbyville, Tenn., June 13,\u00a01875. Parents&#8211; James Monroe and Martha J. Parker Rives. Married&#8211; Mamie L. Gordon, June 19, 1985. Children&#8211;\u00a0two.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Worked for the L &amp; N Railroad, 1890-1916. Elected mayor of Inglenook, 1915; Coroner of Jefferson County, 1917-21; Represented Jefferson County in the Alabama State Legislature, 1923-27;\u00a0deputy president and financial agent for \u00a0the Order of Railway Conductors of America, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1932-54.\u00a0Led movement for an eight-hour workday for railway employees. Assistant Sergeant-at-arms, Democratic National Convention, 1912, 1916, 1936, 1940, 1944.\u00a0 Editor of The Railway Conductor, official publication of the Order of Railway Conductors. Fortieth Commander-in-Chief, Sons of Confederate Veterans. \u00a0Member Masons, Odd Fellows, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Died March 16, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Story of Alabama, Vol. 5; ancestry.com; findagrave website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Green Rives of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and Lincoln County, Tennessee, and his descendants. Birmingham, Ala.; A. H. Cather Publishing Co. 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Railroad conductor, union official;\u00a0elected official, Born&#8211; Shelbyville, Tenn., June 13,\u00a01875. Parents&#8211; James Monroe and Martha J. Parker Rives. Married&#8211; Mamie L. Gordon, June 19, 1985. Children&#8211;\u00a0two.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Worked for the L &amp; N Railroad, 1890-1916. Elected mayor of Inglenook, 1915; Coroner of Jefferson County, 1917-21; Represented Jefferson County in the Alabama State Legislature, 1923-27;\u00a0deputy president and [&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-1954","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\/1954","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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}