{"id":913,"date":"2012-10-24T13:35:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=913"},"modified":"2012-10-24T13:35:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:35:34","slug":"cannon-james-monroe-iii-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"CANNON, JAMES MONROE, III, 1918-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reporter, editor; political aide. Born&#8211;February 26, 1981, Sylacauga. Parents:\u00a0 James M. and Anne Hollingsworth Cannon.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Cherie Dawson, May 17, 1952.\u00a0 Children&#8211; two.\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.S., 1939.\u00a0 Served in the US Army, World War II.\u00a0 Reporter for the <em>Potsdam (N.Y.) Herald-Recorder<\/em>, the <em>Gloverville (N.Y.) Leader-Republican<\/em>, and the <em>Baltimore Sun.\u00a0 <\/em>Contributing editor for <em>Time<\/em> magazine, 1954-56; worked for <em>Newsweek<\/em> as general editor, senior editor, and vice-president, 1956-1969.\u00a0 Aide to Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 1969-75; to President Gerald Ford, 1975-76; chief of staff for Senator Howard Baker, 1976-84. Died September 15, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Politics USA.  Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>American Asenda (Book of the Month Club, 1989)<\/p>\n<p>Time and Chance: Gerald Ford&#8217;s Appointment with History (HarperCollins, February, 1994)<br \/>\n(University of Michigan Press, re-published, February, 1998)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Character Above All (Simon &amp; Schuster, 1995)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of James M. Cannon&#8217;s years with Gerald Ford are held by the Gerald Ford Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Reporter, editor; political aide. Born&#8211;February 26, 1981, Sylacauga. Parents:\u00a0 James M. and Anne Hollingsworth Cannon.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Cherie Dawson, May 17, 1952.\u00a0 Children&#8211; two.\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.S., 1939.\u00a0 Served in the US Army, World War II.\u00a0 Reporter for the Potsdam (N.Y.) Herald-Recorder, the Gloverville (N.Y.) Leader-Republican, and the Baltimore Sun.\u00a0 Contributing editor for Time magazine, [&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-913","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\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}