Thomas Andrews Hanes

Background

Hanes, Thomas Andrews was born on May 10, 1896 in Stevenson, Alabama, United States. Son of Review James Oscar and Emma (Barton) Hanes.

Education

Student Birmingham-Southern College, 1914-1917.

Career

Sports editor Montgomery (Alabama) Journal, 1919. City editor Montgomery Evening Advertiser, also sports editor Birmingham Ledger, 1919-1920. Sports editor Norfolk (Virginia) Ledger-Dispatch, 1920-1936, managing editor since 1936.

War correspondent, 1943. Virginia chairman Associate Press, 1943. Virginia advisor Office Censorship, 1943-1945.

Chairman city recreation commission, 1944-1946. Board member Norfolk community chest.

Politics

There is a large range of issues where Church should interact with politics in such areas as poverty and inequality, environmental issues, nuclear and chemical weapons and the harm caused by use of drugs and drinking.

Views

Responsibility for parenting is to encourage social, economic, and religious efforts to maintain and strengthen relationships within families in order that every member may be assisted toward complete personhood.

Membership

Member Norfolk community chest. Served with United States Navy, 1917-1919. Member Virginia Press Association (president 1946, honorary life.

Mason.; Clubs: Cosmopolitan International Virginia, Princess Anne Country.

Connections

Married Kathryn Crooks Cornick, February 18, 1922.

Father:

Review James Oscar Hanes

Mother:

Emma (Barton) Hanes

Spouse:

Kathryn Crooks Cornick