{"id":2021,"date":"2013-05-08T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2013-05-08T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:06:02","slug":"walters-john-bennett-jr-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"WALTERS, JOHN BENNETT, JR., 1912-1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College professor; historian.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 13, 1912, in Cordele, Ga. Education&#8211; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1947. Taught at Vanderbilt, 1945-1947; Emory and Henry College, 1947-1956; University of Montevallo, 1956-1980; chairman, Dept. of Social Sciences, 1956-1980; acting dean of men, 1957-1959; dean, 1959-1979. Chairman, Board of Directors, Shelby Memorial Hospital, 1975-79. The John B. Walters Scholarship, named in his honor, is awarded to outstanding social science majors at the University of Montevallo. Died July 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars; Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Merchant of Terror; General Sherman and Total War. New York; Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: College professor; historian.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 13, 1912, in Cordele, Ga. Education&#8211; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1947. Taught at Vanderbilt, 1945-1947; Emory and Henry College, 1947-1956; University of Montevallo, 1956-1980; chairman, Dept. of Social Sciences, 1956-1980; acting dean of men, 1957-1959; dean, 1959-1979. Chairman, Board of Directors, Shelby Memorial Hospital, 1975-79. The John B. Walters Scholarship, named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}