{"id":1984,"date":"2013-04-02T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:55:20","slug":"thomas-daniel-holcombe-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"THOMAS, DANIEL HOLCOMBE, 1906-2000."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, jurist. Born&#8211; Aug. 25, 1906 in Prattville, Ala. Parents&#8211; Columbus Eugene and Augusta (Pratt) Thomas. Married&#8211; Dorothy Manning Quiana, Sept. 26, 1936 (died 1977). Married&#8211; Catherine J. Miller, Oct. 25, 1979.\u00a0 Two children. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1928; admitted to Alabama bar 1928. Served as a officer in the U.S. Navy, 1943-46. Practiced law in Mobile, 1929-1951; assistant solicitor of Mobile Co., 1932-1939; acting solicitor, 1943.\u00a0Appointed Judge in the U.S.District Court, Southern District of Alabama, 1951-66; chief judge; 1966-1971;\u00a0senior status, 1971-2000. Served in\u00a0various offices in Mobile Area Council, Boy Scouts of America; trustee of Alabama State Dept. of Archives and History. Member&#8211; American Bar Association, Phi Delta Theta, and Phi Delta Phi. Died April 13, 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, online.<\/p>\n<p>Obituary, New York Times, April 18, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guide to the Diplomatic Archives of Western Europe. Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judge Thomas&#8217; case files and chambers papers are held at the Bounds Law Library at the University of Alabama. A collection including thirteen personal scrapbooks and a tribute book\u00a0is held in the McCall Rare Book and\u00a0Manuscript Library at the University of South Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, jurist. Born&#8211; Aug. 25, 1906 in Prattville, Ala. Parents&#8211; Columbus Eugene and Augusta (Pratt) Thomas. Married&#8211; Dorothy Manning Quiana, Sept. 26, 1936 (died 1977). Married&#8211; Catherine J. Miller, Oct. 25, 1979.\u00a0 Two children. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1928; admitted to Alabama bar 1928. Served as a officer in the U.S. Navy, 1943-46. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","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=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}