{"id":734,"date":"2013-07-17T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=734"},"modified":"2014-10-17T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:23:57","slug":"barton-levi-elder-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"BARTON, LEVI ELDER, 1870-1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptist minister; Born&#8211; April 25, 1870, near Jonesboro, Ark. Parents&#8211; William Henderson and Eliza Martha (Mortan) Barton. Married&#8211; Rosa Belle Hurt, 1899. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Union University in Jackson, Tenn., A.M., 1898; D.D., 1911; attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1898-1899. Ordained to the ministry in the Baptist Church, 1896; served churches in Hope and Fayette, Ark.; Suffolk and Norfolk, Va.; Quitman and Atlanta, Ga.; West Point, Miss.; and Andalusia and Jasper, Ala. Served as general secretary to the executive board of the Arkansas Baptist Convention, first vice-president of the Alabama Baptist Convention and in many other positions in the Baptist Church in Alabama. Editor of the Walker County Tribune, 1937; presidential elector for the Prohibition Party, 1940; nominated for vice-president of the United States by the Prohibition Party in 1944 but declined the nomination.\u00a0 Died May 3, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amazing Grace. Boston; Christopher Pub. House, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Help for Soul Winners. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Take Heed. Nashville; Broadman, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Three Dimensions of Love and Other Sermons. Boston; R. G. Badger, 1929.<\/p>\n<p>(Pamphlet) Four Pillars of the Baptist Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Baptist minister; Born&#8211; April 25, 1870, near Jonesboro, Ark. Parents&#8211; William Henderson and Eliza Martha (Mortan) Barton. Married&#8211; Rosa Belle Hurt, 1899. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Union University in Jackson, Tenn., A.M., 1898; D.D., 1911; attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1898-1899. Ordained to the ministry in the Baptist Church, 1896; served churches in Hope and [&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-734","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\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}