{"id":2039,"date":"2014-07-17T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T23:06:16","slug":"twitty-william-bradley-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"TWITTY, WILLIAM BRADLEY, 1920-1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman. Born&#8211; January 5, 1920, in Allsboro, Ala. (Colbert County). Parents&#8211; Clarence Hudson and Lydia (Blackburn) Twitty. Married&#8211; Gaila Northing, 1941. Children&#8211; Four. Married&#8211; Edith Bolling, July 1951. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of North Alabama, 1939-1941; University of Alabama, 1941-1943; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1944. Recipient, Julius Rosenwald Fellowship to University of Alabama, 1943 and University of North Carolina, 1944. U.S. Army, 1944-1945. Vice president, Twitty &amp; Twitty, Inc., Cherokee, Muscle Shoals, and Birmingham, Ala.; Pompany Beach, Fla.; and Houston, Tex., 1948-1954; president, 1954. Chairman, Alabama State Planning Board, 1947-1951. Died January 16, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Flying Green Whale and Other Poems. Northport, Ala.; American Southern, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all Come. Nashville; Hermitage Press, 1962.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sacred Chitimacho Indian Beliefs. Pompany Beach, Fla.; Twitty &amp; Twitty, 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman. Born&#8211; January 5, 1920, in Allsboro, Ala. (Colbert County). Parents&#8211; Clarence Hudson and Lydia (Blackburn) Twitty. Married&#8211; Gaila Northing, 1941. Children&#8211; Four. Married&#8211; Edith Bolling, July 1951. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of North Alabama, 1939-1941; University of Alabama, 1941-1943; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1944. Recipient, Julius Rosenwald Fellowship to University of Alabama, [&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-2039","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\/2039","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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}