{"id":2029,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2029"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"ward, wyley donald, 1934-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"WARD, WYLEY DONALD, 1934-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engineer.  Born&#8211;  January 30, 1934, in Covington County, Ala.  Parents&#8211;  William  Elias and Hattie May (Knowles) Ward.  Married&#8211;  Elaine Hair.  Children&#8211;  Four.  Education&#8211;  Auburn University, B.S., 1959.  Textile worker in Andalusia, 1952-1953.  Served in U.S. Army, 1953-1956.  Analytical engineer, U.S. Space Program, 1959-; engineering supervisor, chief, analytical design branch, 1965-; made contributions to Apollo, Skylab, Spacelab, and Spacestation  programs.  Received one patent and outstanding achievement awards from NASA.  Chairman, Madison County and vice-chairman, Alabama Republican Party organization.  Presidential elector, State of Alabama, 1980 (supporting Reagan\/Bush). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Public Library Service; Wyley D. Ward, Huntsville, Ala.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early History of Covington County, Ala., 1821-1871.  Huntsville, Ala.;  s.n.,                      1976. <\/p>\n<p>     The Folks of Pea Ridge, in Covington and Conecuh Counties, Alabama.  Huntsville, Ala.;  s.n.,      1976. <\/p>\n<p>     Original Land Sales and Grant in Covington County, Alabama.  Spartanburg, S.C.;  Reprint Co.,      1991. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Engineer. Born&#8211; January 30, 1934, in Covington County, Ala. Parents&#8211; William Elias and Hattie May (Knowles) Ward. Married&#8211; Elaine Hair. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Auburn University, B.S., 1959. Textile worker in Andalusia, 1952-1953. Served in U.S. Army, 1953-1956. Analytical engineer, U.S. Space Program, 1959-; engineering supervisor, chief, analytical design branch, 1965-; made contributions to Apollo, [&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-2029","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\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}