{"id":635,"date":"2012-04-04T12:52:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=635"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:21:13","slug":"abernethy-thomas-young-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"ABERNETHY, THOMAS YOUNG, 1908-1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; teacher. Born&#8211; April 19, 1908, Brookwood. Parents: Paul Lee and Addie Lee Abernethy.\u00a0 Married; Louise Wallis, June 24, 1932. \u00a0Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College. Worked as a schoolteacher and later for the Sylacauga News, Dothan Eagle, Houston Press; editor and part owner of the Talladega Home, 1936-50. Republican candidate for governor of Alabama, 1954. Delegate to Republican National Convention, 1956, 1960, 1964.\u00a0 Member of\u00a0Republican National Committee, 1961. \u00a0Received a Neiman Travel Grant, 1956. Died March 7, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preface to Wood Smoke II.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wood Smoke. Kingsport, Tenn.; Kingsport Press, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Wood Smoke II. Talladega, Ala.; Brannons, Inc., 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist; teacher. Born&#8211; April 19, 1908, Brookwood. Parents: Paul Lee and Addie Lee Abernethy.\u00a0 Married; Louise Wallis, June 24, 1932. \u00a0Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College. Worked as a schoolteacher and later for the Sylacauga News, Dothan Eagle, Houston Press; editor and part owner of the Talladega Home, 1936-50. Republican candidate for governor of Alabama, 1954. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}