{"id":1960,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1960"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"stuart, john leighton, 1876-1962  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"STUART, JOHN LEIGHTON, 1876-1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman, missionary, ambassador, educator.  Born&#8211;  June 24,   1876, in Hangchow, China.  Parents&#8211;  John Linton and Mary Louisa  (Horton) Stuart (his mother a Mobilian).  Married&#8211;  Aline Hardy Rood, Nov. 17, 1904.  Children&#8211;  One.  Education&#8211;  attended school five years in  Mobile; Hampden-Sydney College, B.A., LL.B.; attended Union Theological  Seminary of Virginia.  Ordained to Presbyterian ministry; missionary to  China, 1905; taught at Nanking Theological Seminary 1908-1919; president  of merged Peking University and North China Union College; prisoner of  Japanese 42 months; became U.S. ambassador to China 1946.  Awarded  several honorary doctorates; decorated by Republic of China with Special First Class Order of Merit. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Current Biography, 1946; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 7.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christianity and Confucianism.  New York;  International Missionary Council,                      1928. <\/p>\n<p>     Commentary on the Apocalypse.  (in Chinese)  Shanghai;  Presbyterian Mission Press, 1922. <\/p>\n<p>     The Essentials of New Testament Greek in Chinese.  Shanghai;  Presbyterian Mission Press,      1922. <\/p>\n<p>     Fifty Years in China;  the Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador.  New      York;  Random House, 1954. <\/p>\n<p>     Greek-Chinese-English Dictionary of the New Testament.  Shanghai;  Presbyterian Mission      Press, 1918. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clergyman, missionary, ambassador, educator. Born&#8211; June 24, 1876, in Hangchow, China. Parents&#8211; John Linton and Mary Louisa (Horton) Stuart (his mother a Mobilian). Married&#8211; Aline Hardy Rood, Nov. 17, 1904. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; attended school five years in Mobile; Hampden-Sydney College, B.A., LL.B.; attended Union Theological Seminary of Virginia. Ordained to Presbyterian ministry; missionary [&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-1960","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\/1960","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=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}