{"id":984,"date":"2011-11-09T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=984"},"modified":"2017-10-11T11:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:43:40","slug":"clark-john-bunyan-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"CLARK, JOHN BUNYAN, 1884-1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College Administrator. Born&#8211; June 6, 1884, Hamilton. Parents&#8211; Henry Turner and Missouri Ann (Carpenter) Clark. Married&#8211; Lillie Pearce, 1911. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1907; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1910; Harvard University, A.M., 1911; New York University, Ph.D., 1926; graduate work at Columbia, Michigan State and University of Chicago. Principal of schools in Union Springs, Nanafalia and Marion County; superintendent of schools in Linden; dean of Mercer University, 1929-41; president of Tennessee College for Women, 1942-46; head of the department of citizenship at Lincoln Memorial University, 1946-53; visiting professor at Austin Peay State College, 1953-1954. Served as vice president, then president of the Academic Deans Conference of the Southern Colleges and Universities; served as secretary, vice president and president of the Alabama History Teachers&#8217; Association. Member of American Association of University Professors, Georgia Education Association, Georgia Society for Archaeology, and Kappa Delta Pi. Died January 21, 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography and Marquis Who&#8217;s Who Online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Populism in Alabama. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn Publishing Co., 1927.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dictionary of American History. New York; Scribner, 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood, Adiel. Gazeteer of the State of Georgia. [Biographical sketch by John B. Clark, President Spright Dowell, Mercer University.] Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1939.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: College Administrator. Born&#8211; June 6, 1884, Hamilton. Parents&#8211; Henry Turner and Missouri Ann (Carpenter) Clark. Married&#8211; Lillie Pearce, 1911. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1907; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1910; Harvard University, A.M., 1911; New York University, Ph.D., 1926; graduate work at Columbia, Michigan State and University of Chicago. Principal of schools in [&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-984","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\/984","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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6949,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}