{"id":2334,"date":"2014-06-19T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2018-08-01T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:05:55","slug":"kilpatrick-emmet-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2334","title":{"rendered":"KILPATRICK, EMMETT, 1890-1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Legislator,\u00a0 professor, attorney. Born&#8211; Nov. 20, 1890, Camden, Ala. Parents&#8211; John Young and May (Carleton) Kilpatrick. Education&#8211; Maryville College, B.A.; Johns Hopkins University, M.A., 1923; University of Paris, Ph.D., 1924; post graduate work at the University of Mexico City and University of Rennes in France. Practiced law in Camden before World War I; enlisted in the U.S. Army and went to France where he worked as an interpreter; assigned to the Peace Conference team at the end of the war.\u00a0 Worked for the Red Cross in Eastern Europe. \u00a0In 1920, he was with a Y.M.C.A. unit connected with the White Army in South Russia; captured by the Bolsheviks and held for a year. Sentenced to death as a spy, he slipped a message out in the clothing of a prisoner being released, and the U.S. government demanded and obtained his release. Returned to Camden and practiced law; served in the Alabama Legislature from Perry County, 1923-27; taught at the University of South Carolina, 1925-36; at Troy State University, (head of the English Department), 1937-61.\u00a0\u00a0Died September 25, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Political History of Alabama During the War of Secession. Paris; E. de Boccard, 1924.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Legislator,\u00a0 professor, attorney. Born&#8211; Nov. 20, 1890, Camden, Ala. Parents&#8211; John Young and May (Carleton) Kilpatrick. Education&#8211; Maryville College, B.A.; Johns Hopkins University, M.A., 1923; University of Paris, Ph.D., 1924; post graduate work at the University of Mexico City and University of Rennes in France. Practiced law in Camden before World War I; enlisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","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=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}