{"id":2342,"date":"2016-05-20T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2018-07-26T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:09:21","slug":"kennedy-walter-wallace-1898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"KENNEDY, WALTER WALLACE, 1898-1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Banker; attorney; civic leader. \u00a0Born&#8211; Dec. 20, 1898, Birmingham, Ala.; Parents&#8211; Hughes B. and Katherine (Hausman) Kennedy. Married&#8211; Myra Belle Pope, Sept. 18, 1926. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S. and LL.B.; Rutgers University, Graduate School of Banking. U.S. Army in World War I; U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; retired in 1959 with the rank of colonel.\u00a0Practiced law in Birmingham, 1921-29; worked in the Trust Department of the First National Bank of Montgomery, 1929-35;\u00a0 joined\u00a0 the First National Bank of Montgomery as Vice-President and Trust Officer, 1935; became president in 1948 and Chairman of the Board in 1964.\u00a0 Taught, American Institute of Banking; taught, Louisiana State University, School of Banking of the South. Active in civic and religious organizations in Montgomery; Senior Warden, Episcopal Church of the Ascension; Board of Regents, Rutgers University, Graduate School of Banking; president, Alabama Banking Association; Administrative Committee, American Bankers Association. A gifted amateur artist, his paintings were exhibited at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Elected to the Alabama Academy of Honor, 1977. Died January 2, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Library of Alabama Lives, 1961; files at Alabama Public Library Service; website of Alabama Academy of Honor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bank Management. Boston; Bankers Pub. Co., 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Banker; attorney; civic leader. \u00a0Born&#8211; Dec. 20, 1898, Birmingham, Ala.; Parents&#8211; Hughes B. and Katherine (Hausman) Kennedy. Married&#8211; Myra Belle Pope, Sept. 18, 1926. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S. and LL.B.; Rutgers University, Graduate School of Banking. U.S. Army in World War I; U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; retired [&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-2342","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\/2342","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=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8491,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/8491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}