19 Notable alumni of
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
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Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School is 2763rd in the world, 965th in North America, and 913th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Howard Thurman
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- educatorwritertheologianphilosopher
- Biography
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Howard Washington Thurman was an American author, philosopher, theologian, mystic, educator, and civil rights leader. As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. Thurman's theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr.
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Walter Rauschenbusch
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- theologianuniversity teacher
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Walter Rauschenbusch was an American theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and single tax movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also the maternal grandfather of the influential philosopher Richard Rorty and the great-grandfather of Paul Raushenbush.
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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- clergyman
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson was an American educator and pastor. He served as the first African-American president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960. Johnson has been considered one of the three leading African-American preachers of the early 20th-century, along with Vernon Johns and Howard Thurman.
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James E. Cheek
- Enrolled in Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
- Graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- theologianeducator
- Biography
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James Edward Cheek was president emeritus of Howard University. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
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James A. Forbes
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- theologian
- Biography
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James Alexander Forbes, Jr. is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. He was the first African American minister to lead this multicultural congregation, and served it for 18 years.
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Channing E. Phillips
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- civil rights advocateChristian ministerpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Channing Emery Phillips was an American minister, civil rights leader, and social activist based in Washington, D.C. In 1968, he was the first African American in history to be placed in nomination for president of the United States by a major political party.
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Augustus Hopkins Strong
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- theologian
- Biography
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Augustus Hopkins Strong was a Baptist minister and theologian who lived in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most influential book, Systematic Theology, proved to be a mainstay of Baptist theological education.
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Charles Augustus Strong
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- psychologist
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Charles Augustus Strong was an American philosopher and psychologist. He spent the earlier part of his career teaching in the United States, but after his wife died, in 1906 he settled with their daughter in Italy, near Florence. Between 1918 and 1936 he wrote most of his works there.
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David Crockett Graham
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- curatoranthropologist
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David Crockett Graham was a polymath American Baptist minister and missionary, educator, author, archaeologist, anthropologist, naturalist and field collector in the Province of Sichuan (formerly spelled Szechwan) during the Chinese Republican Era, from 1911 to 1948. He was a 32nd degree Mason, and a past master of the Szechwan Lodge No. 112. From 1921 to 1942, Graham collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution nearly 400,000 zoological specimens, including more than 230 new species and 9 new genera, of which 29 were named after him (see below). From 1932 to 1942 he was curator of the Museum of Art, Archaeology and Ethnology at the West China Union University, which still stands as part of Sichuan University, in Chengdu. There, he taught comparative religions at the Theological College, and archaeology and anthropology at the University. He wrote extensively and spent his retirement years, from 1950 to 1961, in Englewood, Colorado compiling his writings and research into three books that were published by the Smithsonian Institution. A fourth manuscript lay in the Whitman College and Northwest Archives until it was discovered by Hartmut Walravens, who edited it and published it in 2018. McKhann refers to Graham as "One of a handful of Western missionaries whose scientific work was respected by other scientists—and of even fewer scientists whose religious work was respected by other missionaries."
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Lorraine K. Potter
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- 1946-.. (age 78)
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- military officer
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Lorraine Kay Potter is a former Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force and was the first female chaplain in the United States Air Force.
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Ernest DeWitt Burton
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- theologianeditorprofessor
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Ernest DeWitt Burton was an American biblical scholar and president of the University of Chicago.
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Henry Kirke Porter
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- politician
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Henry Kirke Porter was an American businessman and Representative of the United States Congress for Pennsylvania's 31st congressional district.
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Samuel B. McKinney
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- pastorcivil rights advocate
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Samuel Berry McKinney was an American Christian pastor and Civil Rights leader. He was the pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle for four decades. He attended the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, and he served on the Seattle Human Rights Commission.
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William Cleaver Wilkinson
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- university teacherwriterliterary criticpoetpastor
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William Cleaver Wilkinson, D.D. was a Baptist preacher, professor of theology, professor of poetry, and literary figure. He popularized the "Three W's and the Five W's".
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Wayland Hoyt
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- 1838-1910 (aged 72)
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- civil servant
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Wayland Hoyt was an American Baptist minister and author.
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Joseph K. Dixon
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- filmmakerphotographerpastoranthropologistlecturer
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Joseph Kossuth Dixon was an American clergyman, lecturer and photographer who led the Wanamaker expeditions visiting indigenous peoples of the United States.
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George Ripley Bliss
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- academic
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George Ripley Bliss was an American cleric and educator. He served twice as president of Bucknell University.
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George Fisher Linfield
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- 1846-1890 (aged 44)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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The Rev. George Fisher Linfield was an American clergyman and educator. Linfield College (now Linfield University) in McMinnville, Oregon, was named in his honor.
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James Monroe Taylor
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James Monroe Taylor was a Baptist minister who was the fourth president of Vassar College.
