{"id":2348,"date":"2007-12-05T09:31:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:14:48","slug":"kennamer-rexford-1920-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"KELLY, MAUD McLURE, 1887-1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney. Born&#8211; June 26, 1887, Mountain Spring, Ala. Parents&#8211; Richard Bussey and Leona (Bledsoe) Kelly. Education&#8211; Noble Institute, Anniston, graduated 1904; worked as a stenographer in her father&#8217;s law practice; University of Alabama School of Law, graduated 1908. Admitted to the bar. 1908;\u00a0became the first woman to practice law in Alabama; admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1909; admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, 1914, the first Southern woman so admitted. Practiced law, Birmingham, 1908-1918 and 1924-1931; legal staff of the U.S. Interior Dept., 1918-1924. Retired from the practice of law in 1931;\u00a0\u00a0inspector\u00a0of county records and acquisitions agent\u00a0for Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1943-56. Active in the Democratic Party, and spoke at rallies and in campaigns; appointed, 1930, to organize the women Democrats of Alabama; represented Alabama as official hostess at the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Member; Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy; Daughters of the American Revolution; Alabama Society of the United States Daughters of 1812; Alabama Equal Suffrage Association; American Legion Auxiliary; and other cultural, patriotic and historical organizations. Named to Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame, 1990, and Alabama Lawyers&#8217; Hall of Fame, 2014. Died April 2, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama, Vol. V. Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Descent from Richard Pace of Pace&#8217;s Pains and Samuel Macock. S.l.; s.n. (typescript), 1947.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lineage Book of the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Birmingham, Ala.; Works Progress Administration, 1937.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Maud McLure Kelly are held by the library at Samford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney. Born&#8211; June 26, 1887, Mountain Spring, Ala. Parents&#8211; Richard Bussey and Leona (Bledsoe) Kelly. Education&#8211; Noble Institute, Anniston, graduated 1904; worked as a stenographer in her father&#8217;s law practice; University of Alabama School of Law, graduated 1908. Admitted to the bar. 1908;\u00a0became the first woman to practice law in Alabama; admitted to practice [&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-2348","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\/2348","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=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8481,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/8481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}