Background
Johnstone, Alan was born on July 11, 1890 in Newberry, South Carolina, United States. Son of Alan and Lilla Rawl (Kennerly) Johnstone.
Johnstone, Alan was born on July 11, 1890 in Newberry, South Carolina, United States. Son of Alan and Lilla Rawl (Kennerly) Johnstone.
Bachelor of Arts, Newberry College, Newberry, South Carolina., 1910. Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, University of South Carolina., 1912. Graduate student Harvard, 1912-1913.
Admitted to South Carolina. bar, 1913. Practiced in Columbia, 1913-1917. Assistant city attorney, 1915-1917.
Representative Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, promoting Victory Loan, 1919.
Executive officer Maryland Social Hygiene Society, Baltimore, 1920-1923. Executive director and organizer, Baltimore Criminal Justice Commission, 1923-1929.
Executive director Baltimore Fund, 1925-1929. Director Emergency Relief, South Carolina., 1932-1933.
General law practice in Newberry, 1920-1938.
Field representative, South.E., states, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and Civil Works Administration, 1933-1935, Works Progress Administration, 1935-1937. Counsel special committee of the United States Senate to investigate unemployment and relief, 1937-1938. General counsel Federal Works Agency, 1939-1948.
In practice of law, Newberry, South Carolina.
Appointed by secretaries of War and Navy departments representative law enforcement division Commision on Training Camp Activities, War and Navy departments, 1917-1919.
Member South Carolina. Legislature, 1915-1916. Member Georgia, South Carolina., Maryland. and Supreme Court of the United States bar associations.
Married Lalla Rook Simmons, 1914. Children: Lalla Rook, Martha Ward.