{"id":2058,"date":"2012-11-09T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2012-11-09T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:27:28","slug":"waller-george-platt-1889-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"WALLER, GEORGE PLATT, 1889-1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer, diplomat.  Born&#8211;  September 7, 1889, in Montgomery, Ala.  Parents&#8211;  George  Platt and Susan Theresa (Jones) Waller.  Education&#8211;  University of Virginia, LL.B., 1912.  Principal of high school, Chilhowie, Va., 1913.  Vice consul or consul for U.S. Department of State, 1913-1950, serving in Nova Scotia; Austria; Greece; Kobe, Japan; Bizerte, Tunisia; La Ceiba, Honduras; Dresden, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Luxemburg; Chihuahua, Mexico; Florence, Italy; Washington, D.C.  Awarded honorary LL.B. from Jones Law School. President, Alabama Historical Association.  Director, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.  Published poems in Lippincott&#8217;s magazine. Died February 26, 1962.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; National Cyclopedia of American Biography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commerce Industries of Greece.  Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office,                      1916.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Susie Jones Waller;  Her Life and Verse.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Lawyer, diplomat. Born&#8211; September 7, 1889, in Montgomery, Ala. Parents&#8211; George Platt and Susan Theresa (Jones) Waller. Education&#8211; University of Virginia, LL.B., 1912. Principal of high school, Chilhowie, Va., 1913. Vice consul or consul for U.S. Department of State, 1913-1950, serving in Nova Scotia; Austria; Greece; Kobe, Japan; Bizerte, Tunisia; La Ceiba, Honduras; Dresden, [&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-2058","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\/2058","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=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}