{"id":1991,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1991"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"thomas, william holcombe, 1867-1945  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"THOMAS, WILLIAM HOLCOMBE, 1867-1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, jurist, writer.  Born&#8211;  July 10, 1867 in Chambers Co., Ala.  Parents&#8211;   William Erasmus Crawford and Emma Jane (Avery) Thomas.  Married&#8211;  Lula Marian McCurdy, June 4, 1891.  Children&#8211;  One.  Education&#8211;  Emory University, A.B.  Practiced law, 1888-1902 and 1910-1915; judge City Court of Montgomery, 1902-1910; justice Supreme Court of Alabama, 1915-1945.  Member&#8211;  Child Labor Committee, Alabama Historical Society, American and Alabama Bar Associations, executive committee of Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Delinquents, and Phi Beta Kappa; trustee of Huntingdon College; received several honorary doctorates. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 37; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birth and Growth of the Constitution of Alabama.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon                      Press, 1900. <\/p>\n<p>     Contemporary Pagan Witness of Early Christians.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1909. <\/p>\n<p>     Governor Samford&#8217;s Last Christmas;  Occasional Poems.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1910. <\/p>\n<p>     Jesus Christ and the Commandments.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1910. <\/p>\n<p>     The Layman in Religious Life.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1908. <\/p>\n<p>     The Negro and Crime.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1912. <\/p>\n<p>     The New South&#8211;An Inside View.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1908. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, jurist, writer. Born&#8211; July 10, 1867 in Chambers Co., Ala. Parents&#8211; William Erasmus Crawford and Emma Jane (Avery) Thomas. Married&#8211; Lula Marian McCurdy, June 4, 1891. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Emory University, A.B. Practiced law, 1888-1902 and 1910-1915; judge City Court of Montgomery, 1902-1910; justice Supreme Court of Alabama, 1915-1945. Member&#8211; Child Labor Committee, [&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-1991","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\/1991","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=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}