{"id":883,"date":"2012-10-23T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=883"},"modified":"2017-08-30T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:05:01","slug":"burghard-august-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"BURGHARD, AUGUST, 1901-1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; advertising executive. Born&#8211; August 19, 1901, Opelika. Parents&#8211; August and Margaret (Meadors) Burghard. Married&#8211; Lois Baker. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended Mercer University, 1921-1925; Northwestern University, 1937-1939; Emory University, 1941; University of North Carolina, 1942-1943. Began his career with the Ft. Lauderdale News; worked with the Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce; president of August Burghard Advertising, Inc.; senior vice president of Campbell-Dickey Advertising, Inc.; director of the Everglades Bank and the Lauderdale Memorial Gardens. Honors; Silver Medal from the Advertising Federation of American and Printers&#8217; Ink, 1959. Died August 3, 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alligator Alley, Florida&#8217;s Most Controversial Highway. S.l.; Lanman, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s First Family, the Savages of Virginia. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The Days of Our Years; are Three Score and Ten &#8211;. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; First Presbyterian Church, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The Fabulous Fin. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; s.n., 1979.<\/p>\n<p>From $2,512.00 to a Billion Plus. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Wake Brooke House, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Half a Century in Florida. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Manatee Books, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>History, Lauderdale Yacht Club. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Lauderdale Yacht Club, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Frank Stranahan, Pioneer. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Historical Society of Fort Lauderdale, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>My Early Days in Florida from 1905. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Wake Brooke Book Co., 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Nova University; the First Ten Years. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Nova University Press, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Frederick C. Peters. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Tropical Press, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Watchie-Esta\/Hutie. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Historical Society of Fort Lauderdale, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Checkered Sunshine; the Story of Fort Lauderdale, 1793-1955. Gainesville, Fla.; University of Florida Press, 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist; advertising executive. Born&#8211; August 19, 1901, Opelika. Parents&#8211; August and Margaret (Meadors) Burghard. Married&#8211; Lois Baker. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended Mercer University, 1921-1925; Northwestern University, 1937-1939; Emory University, 1941; University of North Carolina, 1942-1943. Began his career with the Ft. Lauderdale News; worked with the Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce; president of August [&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-883","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\/883","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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6768,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}