{"id":662,"date":"2012-09-20T08:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=662"},"modified":"2016-06-17T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:43:11","slug":"alexander-truman-hudson-1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"ALEXANDER, TRUMAN HUDSON, 1891-1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; columnist. Born&#8211; October 20, 1891, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William Brooks and Nancy (Hudson) Alexander. Married&#8211; Helen Almon, December 30, 1914. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Howard Institute, Mt. Pleasant, Tn.,\u00a01900-1909; Vanderbilt University, 1909-1912. Wrote for magazines and newspapers. Wrote a syndicated column, &#8220;I Reckon So,&#8221; 1912-1938. After 1938, wrote a syndicated weekly feature. Member of the Newcomen Society, Sigma Nu, and Methodist Church. Died September 1, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loot. Dallas, Tex.; Southwest Press, 1932.<\/p>\n<p>They Tried to Kidnap the Kaiser and Brought Back an Ash Tray. Philadelphia; Saturday Evening Post, 1937.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Austin Peay, Governor of Tennessee, 1923-25, 1925-27, 1927-29; a Collection of State Papers and Public Addresses. Kingsport, Tenn.; Southern Publishers, Inc., 1929.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer; columnist. Born&#8211; October 20, 1891, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William Brooks and Nancy (Hudson) Alexander. Married&#8211; Helen Almon, December 30, 1914. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Howard Institute, Mt. Pleasant, Tn.,\u00a01900-1909; Vanderbilt University, 1909-1912. Wrote for magazines and newspapers. Wrote a syndicated column, &#8220;I Reckon So,&#8221; 1912-1938. After 1938, wrote a syndicated weekly feature. Member of the [&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-662","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\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}