83 Notable alumni of
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
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Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is 830th in the world, 309th in North America, and 288th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 83 notable alumni from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- theologianpoetresistance fighterparsonphilosopher
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic. Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Adolf Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel Prison for one-and-a-half years. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp.
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Carl Rogers
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- non-fiction writerpsychotherapistpsychologist
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Carl Ransom Rogers was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy. Rogers is widely considered one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956.
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Raphael Warnock
- Enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
- Graduated with Master of Divinity in systematic theology
- Occupations
- politicianwriterpastor
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Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American Baptist pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.
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David Dellinger
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- peace activistpacifisttrade unionistpolitical activist
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David T. Dellinger was an American pacifist and an activist for nonviolent social change. Although active beginning in the early 1940s, Dellinger reached peak prominence as one of the Chicago Seven, who were put on trial in 1969.
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Lisa Oz
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- screenwritermanufacturerradio personalityactorpresenter
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Lisa Oz is an American author and radio and television personality who has been an occasional co-host of The Dr. Oz Show. She has appeared on the Oprah and Friends XM radio telecasts. Oz has authored or co-authored several books, including the You: The Owner's Manual series, and is host of The Lisa Oz Show.
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Rollo May
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- writerpsychotherapistpsychologist
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Rollo Reece May was an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work.
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Melissa Harris-Perry
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- writerpolitical scientistpresenterpunditjournalist
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Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry, formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, is an American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. Harris-Perry hosted the Melissa Harris-Perry weekend news and opinion television show on MSNBC from 2012 to February 27, 2016.
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Karenna Gore Schiff
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- lawyerjournalist
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Karenna Aitcheson Gore is an American author, lawyer, and climate activist. She is the eldest daughter of former U.S. vice president Al Gore and Tipper Gore and the sister of Kristin Gore, Sarah Gore Maiani, and Albert Gore III. Gore is the founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary.
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Norman Thomas
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- civil rights advocatepeace activistpoliticiansocialist
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Norman Mattoon Thomas was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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Frederick Buechner
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- novelisttheologianautobiographerwriterprose writer
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Carl Frederick Buechner was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, his career spanned more than six decades and encompassed many different genres. He wrote novels, including Godric (1981 Pulitzer Prize finalist), A Long Day's Dying and The Book of Bebb, his memoirs, including The Sacred Journey, and theological works, such as Secrets in the Dark, The Magnificent Defeat, and Telling the Truth.
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Marcus Borg
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- biblical scholarwritertheologianprofessor
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Marcus Joel Borg was an American New Testament scholar and theologian. He was among the most widely known and influential voices in Liberal Christianity. Borg was a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a major figure in historical Jesus scholarship. He retired as Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University in 2007. He died eight years later at the age of 72, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Powell Butte, Oregon.
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John Sung
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- 1901-1944 (aged 43)
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- missionary
- Biography
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John Sung Shang Chieh also John Sung, was a renowned Chinese Christian evangelist who played an instrumental role in the revival movement among the Chinese in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia during the 1920s and 1930s.
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John Batchelor
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- science fiction writerwriter
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John Calvin Batchelor is an American author and the host of Eye on the World on the CBS Audio Network. His flagship station is New York's 710 WOR. The show is a hard-news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences.
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Andrea Smith
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- designerpretendianintellectualillustrator
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Andrea Lee Smith is an American academic, feminist, and activist. Smith's work has primarily focused on issues of violence against women of color and their communities, specifically Native American women. Formerly an assistant professor of American Culture and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she is also a co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the Boarding School Healing Project, and the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations.
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Emil Brunner
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- theologianuniversity teacher
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Heinrich Emil Brunner was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Along with Karl Barth, he is commonly associated with neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement.
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A. J. Muste
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- pastortrade unionisttheologianteacher
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Abraham Johannes Muste, usually cited as A. J. Muste, was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist. He is best remembered for his work in the labor movement, pacifist movement, antiwar movement, and civil rights movement.
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Homer Hulbert
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- missionary
- Biography
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Homer Bezaleel Hulbert was an American missionary, journalist, linguist, and Korean independence activist.
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Walter Wink
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- theologianuniversity teacher
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Walter Wink was an American Biblical scholar, theologian, and activist who was an important figure in Progressive Christianity. Wink spent much of his career teaching at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. He was well known for his advocacy of and work related to nonviolent resistance and his seminal works on "The Powers", Naming the Powers (1984), Unmasking the Powers (1986), Engaging the Powers (1992), When the Powers Fall (1998), and The Powers that Be (1999), all of them commentaries on the Apostle Paul's ethic of spiritual warfare described here:
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Myles Horton
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- teachereducator
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Myles Falls Horton was an American educator, socialist, and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement (Movement leader James Bevel called Horton "The Father of the Civil Rights Movement"). Horton taught and heavily influenced most of the era's leaders. They included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks (who studied with Horton shortly before her decision to keep her seat on the Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955), John Lewis, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, and others who would create the Nashville Student Movement, Ralph Abernathy, John B. Thompson, and many others.
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Mark Juergensmeyer
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- university teacherhistorian
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Mark Juergensmeyer is an American sociologist and scholar specialized in global studies and religious studies, and a writer best known for his studies on comparative religion, religious violence, and global religion. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College.
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William H. Hudnut III
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- politician
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William Herbert Hudnut III was an American author and politician who served as the 45th mayor of Indianapolis from 1976 to 1992. A Republican, his four terms made him the city's longest-serving mayor. He had previously represented the Indianapolis area in Congress from 1973 to 1975 but was defeated in his race for a second term.
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Muriel Duckworth
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- activistpolitician
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Muriel Helen Duckworth was a Canadian pacifist, feminist, and social and community activist. She was a practising Quaker, a religious denomination committed to non-violence. Duckworth maintained that war, with its systematic violence against women and children, is a major obstacle to social justice. She argued that money spent on armaments perpetuates poverty while reinforcing the power of privileged elites. She believed that "war is stupid" and she steadfastly refused to accept popular distinctions between "good" and "bad" wars.
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Suzan Johnson Cook
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- writerpoliticianpastortelevision producer
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Suzan Denise Johnson Cook is a U.S. presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013. She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, and the author of nearly a dozen books. She was the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the Mariners Temple Baptist Church in NYC part of the American Baptist Churches USA and a close friend of Coretta Scott King. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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David P. Gushee
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- 1962-.. (age 62)
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- ethicisthistorian
- Biography
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David P. Gushee is a Christian ethicist, Baptist pastor, author, professor, and public intellectual. Growing up, Gushee attended and completed his college years at College of William and Mary in 1984. After college, he received his Ph.D. in Christian ethics from Union Theological Seminary in 1993. Among the titles listed, Gushee has shown hard work and dedication in different parts of his job and was awarded for his achievements. Gushee is most known for his activism in climate change, Torture, LGBT inclusion, and Post-evangelicalism.
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Charles Augustus Briggs
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- writertheologianclericuniversity teacherlibrarian
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Charles Augustus Briggs, American Presbyterian (and later Episcopalian) scholar and theologian, was born in New York City, the son of Alanson Briggs and Sarah Mead Berrian. He was excommunicated from the Presbyterian Church for heresy due to his liberal theology regarding the Bible.
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Mark Hanson
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- pastor
- Biography
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Mark S. Hanson is an American bishop who served as the third Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Before being elected presiding bishop, he served as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod as well as pastor of three Minnesota congregations: Prince of Glory Lutheran Church, Minneapolis; Edina Community Lutheran Church; and University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis. In addition to serving as Presiding Bishop, Hanson was the 11th President of the Lutheran World Federation.
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Conrad Tillard
- Enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
- In 1983 graduated with Master of Divinity
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- politicianreligious leaderimamactivistChristian minister
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Conrad Bennette Tillard is an American Baptist minister, radio host, activist, politician, and author.
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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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Helen Flanders Dunbar
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- physicianpsychiatrist
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Helen Flanders Dunbar — later known as H. Flanders Dunbar — is an important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine and psychobiology, as well as being an important advocate of physicians and clergy co-operating in their efforts to care for the sick. She viewed the patient as a combination of the psyche and soma, body and soul. Both needed to be treated in order to treat a patient efficiently. Dunbar received degrees in mathematics, psychology, theology, philosophy, and medicine. Dunbar founded the American Psychosomatic Society in 1942 and was the first editor of its journal. In addition to running several other committees committed to treating the whole patient, Dunbar wrote and distributed information for public health, involving child development and advocating for mental health care after World War II.
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Ibuka Kajinosuke
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- pastorsamurai
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Ibuka Kajinosuke was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who became a Christian during the Meiji period. He was born in Aizu, and fought in the Boshin War. In his adult life, he also became an ordained minister, and was an educator.
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Malcolm Boyd
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- authorAnglican priestnon-fiction writer
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Malcolm Boyd was an American Episcopal priest and author. He was active in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the Freedom Riders in 1961 and as a minister. Boyd was also active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. In 1977, Boyd "came out", revealing that he was homosexual and becoming a spokesman for gay rights.
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Delores S. Williams
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- professorwriter
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Delores Seneva Williams was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor notable for her formative role in the development of womanist theology and best known for her book Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Her writings use black women's experiences as epistemological sources, and she is known for her womanist critique of atonement theories. As opposed to feminist theology, predominantly practiced by white women, and black theology, predominantly practiced by black men, Williams argued that black women's experiences generate critical theological insights and questions.
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James Wyatt
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- 1968-.. (age 56)
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- novelistwriterrole-playing game designer
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James Wyatt is a game designer and a former United Methodist minister. He works for Wizards of the Coast, where he has designed supplements and adventures for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) roleplaying game. He is the author of sci-fi and fantasy novels, including Forgotten Realms books, and the 4th edition Dungeon Master's Guide.
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Henry Sloane Coffin
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- theologian
- Biography
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Henry Sloane Coffin was president of the Union Theological Seminary, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, and one of the most famous ministers in the United States. He was also one of the translators of the popular hymn "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", along with John Mason Neale.
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Richard A. Muller
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- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
- Graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Richard A. Muller is an American historical theologian.
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Ian Doescher
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- novelistscience fiction writer
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Ian Doescher /ˈdɛʃər/ is an American fiction writer, best known as the author of the plays in the William Shakespeare's Star Wars trilogy series, Verily, a New Hope (2013), The Empire Striketh Back (2014), and The Jedi Doth Return (2014), parodic retellings of George Lucas's Star Wars film trilogy (1977–1983) in blank verse and 16th-century style of William Shakespeare.
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John S. Edwards
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- politicianlawyer
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John Saul Edwards is an American politician and lawyer. He served a member of the Senate of Virginia, representing the 21st district from 1996 to 2024.
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José Míguez Bonino
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- theologianuniversity teacherpastor
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José Míguez Bonino was an Argentine Methodist theologian.
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William Scott Ament
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- missionary
- Biography
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William Scott Ament was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from 1877, and was known as the "Father of Christian Endeavor in China." Ament became prominent as a result of his activism during the Boxer Uprising and controversial in its aftermath because of the personal attacks on him by American writer Mark Twain for his collection of punitive indemnities from northern Chinese villages.
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Allen Wright
- Enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
- In 1855 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- Bible translatortranslator
- Biography
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Allen Wright was Principal Chief of the Choctaw Republic from late 1866 to 1870. He had been ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1852 after graduating from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was very active in the Choctaw government, holding several elected positions. He has been credited with the name Oklahoma (Choctaw word meaning "Home of the Red Man" in English) for the land that would become the state.
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William Hung
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- historian
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William Hung, was a Chinese historian and sinologist who taught for many years at Yenching University, Peking, which was China's leading Christian university, and at Harvard University. He is known for bringing modern standards of scholarship to the study of Chinese classical writings, for editing the Harvard-Yenching Index Series, and for his biography of Du Fu, Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet, which is considered a classic in the English world on the studies of Du Fu. He became a Christian while a student at the Anglo-Chinese College in Fuzhou, then went to Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, Columbia University, and Union Theological Seminary. On his return to China, he became Professor and Dean of Yenching University, where he was instrumental in establishing the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He came to Harvard in 1946 and spent the rest of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, teaching and mentoring students.
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Emily C. Hewitt
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- Anglican priestjudge
- Biography
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Emily Clark Hewitt is a former judge and chief judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
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Cain Hope Felder
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- theologianbiblical scholar
- Biography
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Cain Hope Felder was an American biblical scholar, serving as professor of New Testament language and literature and editor of The Journal of Religious Thought at the Howard University School of Divinity. He also served as chair of the Doctor of Philosophy program and immediate past chair of the Doctor of Ministry program. He had been on Howard's faculty from 1981 until his retirement in 2016.
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Richard L. Pratt, Jr
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- theologian
- Biography
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Richard Linwood Pratt Jr. is an American theologian, author, and founder and President of Third Millennium Ministries. Third Millennium was launched in response to the lack of training of Christian leaders around the world. Third Millennium recognizes where the church is growing the fastest, those Christian leaders have the least amount of training. Pratt personally witnessed this in the 1980s as he traveled for missions. Helping the church worldwide has become his passion. He believes that any person that has the desire to learn more about the Bible should be given that opportunity in their own land, in their own language, and at no cost.
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Freeman Patterson
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- writerphotographer
- Biography
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Freeman Wilford Patterson is a Canadian nature photographer and writer. He lives at Shamper's Bluff, New Brunswick. Patterson has authored several books on photographic techniques and theory, as well as on his nature photography.
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Katie Geneva Cannon
- Enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
- Graduated with doctorate
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Katie Geneva Cannon was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology. In 1974 she became the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA).
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V. C. Samuel
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- theologian
- Biography
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Vilakuvelil Cherian Samuel, called Samuel Achen was an Indian Christian philosopher, scholar, university professor, theologian, historian, polyglot and ecumenical leader. He was a priest of the Indian Orthodox Church. He was the author of many doctrinal books and papers including The Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined: Historical Theological Survey.
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George Richard Lunn
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- politician
- Biography
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George Richard Lunn was an American clergyman and politician from New York. He was the first Socialist mayor in the state of New York, a U.S. Representative from 1917 to 1919, and the lieutenant governor of New York from 1923 to 1924.
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Juhanon Mar Thoma
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- writer
- Biography
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Juhanon Mar Thoma XVIII Metropolitan was the Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church from 1949–1976, who gave leadership to the church and at the same time actively participated in social and political arenas. He was respected by people from all walks of life, from all religions and from all age groups. He is remembered for providing the church with its famous motto "Lighted to Lighten". His humanistic and socially-engaged approach to the Christian faith was embodied in his personal credo: "The Church must be interested where human life is interested."
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Cheryl D. Miller
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Cheryl D. Holmes Miller is an American graphic designer, Christian minister, writer, artist, theologian, and decolonizing historian. She is known for her contributions to racial and gender equality in the graphic design field, and establishing one of the first black-women-owned design firms in New York City in 1984. Her alma maters are the Maryland Institute College of Art, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and Union Theological.
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John Rousmaniere
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- journalist
- Biography
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John Pierce Rousmaniere is an American writer and author of 30 historical. technical, and instructional books on sailing, yachting history, New York history, business history, and the histories of clubs, businesses, and other organizations. An authority on seamanship and boating safety, he has conducted tests of equipment and sailing skills and led or participated in fact-finding inquiries into boating accidents. He has been presented with several awards for his writing and his contributions to boating safety and seamanship.
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Ann Allebach
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- preachersuffragettepastoracademic administratorsunday school teacher
- Biography
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Ann Jemima Allebach was an American minister, educator and suffragette. She was the first woman ordained as a Mennonite minister in North America, on January 15, 1911. There was not another Mennonite woman ordained until 1973.
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Jean Lasserre
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- theologian
- Biography
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Jean Lasserre was a pastor of the Reformed Church of France, a peace theologian, the travel secretary of the French branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and the editor of the Cahiers de la Réconciliation, a French-language magazine. His book, The War and the Gospel (French original 1953) made him internationally known.
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Harvie Branscomb
- Occupations
- university teacheracademic administratorlibrarian
- Biography
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Bennett Harvie Branscomb was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1946 to 1963. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt, he was the director of the Duke University Libraries and dean of the Duke Divinity School. Additionally, he served as a professor of Christian theology at Southern Methodist University. He was the author of several books about New Testament theology.
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Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Biography
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Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer is an American academic. He sought the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party as a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2008, but was defeated by Al Franken.
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Charles McEwen Hyde
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- missionary
- Biography
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Charles McEwen Hyde was a Congregationalist missionary who arrived in Hawaii in 1877. He was instrumental in establishing and supporting schools to educate and train the Hawaiian population of the time. Hyde mentored native Hawaiians who wanted to enter the Christian ministry, and he helped provide smallpox vaccinations for the population. He was a descendant of Scottish Covenanters, and one of the original five trustees of Kamehameha Schools. Private correspondence about Father Damien, penned by Hyde and published without his permission, sparked a heated public rebuke from Robert Louis Stevenson who expressed his belief that sainthood lay ahead for Damien.
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William Weston Patton
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- theologiansongwriter
- Biography
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William Weston Patton, was an abolitionist, academic administrator, and scholar. He served as the fifth president of Howard University, and one of the contributors to the words of "John Brown's Body". He was the son of Rev. William Patton and the grandson of Anglo-Irish Congregationalist immigrant and Revolutionary War soldier Major Robert Patton.
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Henry Harris Jessup
- Years
- 1832-1910 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- diplomatwritermissionary
- Biography
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Henry Harris Jessup was an American Presbyterian missionary and author who devoted his distinguished career to evangelical missionary work in Syria (now Lebanon).
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Samuel McChord Crothers
- Years
- 1857-1927 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- Christian ministerauthorwriteressayist
- Biography
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Samuel McChord Crothers was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.
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J. T. Gulick
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- priestmissionaryzoologistmalacologist
- Biography
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John Thomas Gulick was an American missionary and naturalist from Hawaii. He was one of the pioneers of modern evolutionary thinking based on his studies of Hawaiian snails of the genus Achatinella. He was among the first to describe the formation of species through geographic separation of breeding populations. He developed early ideas on the founder effect and what is now known as the Baldwin effect. He coined the term "divergent evolution".
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Arthur Cushman McGiffert
- Years
- 1861-1933 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian, was born in Sauquoit, New York, the son of a Presbyterian clergyman of Scots-Irish descent.
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George Forell
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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George Wolfgang Forell was the Carver Distinguished Chair of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He was a scholar, author, lecturer, and guest professor in the field of Christian ethics.
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Debra Haffner
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- sex educator
- Biography
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Debra W. Haffner is co-founder and president emerita of the Religious Institute, Inc. A sexologist and ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, she was the endorsed community minister with the Unitarian Church in Westport, Connecticut. Haffner retired from the Religious Institute on April 30, 2016. She has been the settled minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston, Virginia since August 2016.
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Henry Martyn Baird
- Occupations
- writerhistorian
- Biography
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Henry Martyn Baird was an American historian and educator. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots.
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John Martin Thomas
- Occupations
- academic administrator
- Biography
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John Martin Thomas was the ninth president of Middlebury College, the ninth president of Penn State, and the twelfth president of Rutgers University.
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Sylvanus Stall
- Occupations
- sex educator
- Biography
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Sylvanus Stall was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book What A Young Boy Ought To Know and its many sequels.
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Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge
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- university teacherphilosopheressayist
- Biography
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Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge was a teacher at various American universities. Woodbridge considered himself a naïve realist, deeply impressed with Santayana. He spent much of his career as a dean (of the Faculties of Political Science, Philosophy, and Pure Science) at Columbia University, where a residence hall and a professorship in philosophy are named in his honor. He was editor of the Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods. David and Lillian Swenson, translators of some of the works of Søren Kierkegaard, dedicated Concluding Unscientific Postscript, (1941) to Professor Woodbridge.
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Edwin Otway Burnham
- Biography
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Rev Edwin Otway Burnham was a Congregational minister and missionary.
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Henry E. Brady
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- political scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Henry E. Brady is an American political scientist specializing in methodology and its application in a diverse array of political fields. He was Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley from 2009–2021 and holds the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. He was elected President of the American Political Science Association, 2009–2010, giving a presidential address entitled "The Art of Political Science: Spatial Diagrams as Iconic and Revelatory." He has published academic works on diverse topics, co-authoring with colleagues at a variety of institutions and ranks, as well as many solo authored works. His principal areas of research are on political behavior in the United States, Canada, and the former Soviet Union, public policy and methodological work on scaling and dimensional analysis. When he became President of the American Political Science Association, a number of his colleagues and co-authors contributed to his presidential biography entitled "Henry Brady, Big Scientist," discussing his work and the fields to which he has contributed and has also shaped.
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Samuel Lucien Terrien
- Occupations
- professorbiblical scholar
- Biography
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Samuel Lucien Terrien was a French-American Protestant theologian and biblical scholar. A professor at Union Theological Seminary for thirty-six years, he is known for his biblical commentary, particularly for his scholarly contributions to the study of Job and the Psalms in the Old Testament and for his book, The Elusive Presence (1978), in which he presented a new theology of the presence and absence of God written largely in the context of cult, not covenant. It incorporated both Old and New Testaments in a broader ecumenical context and introduced a way for future theologians to ask how the presence of God is experienced by engaging the wisdom traditions to explore how ‘empirical observation can testify to a divine presence in human life just as visionary experiences can.'
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Matthew Meigs
- Biography
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Matthew Kugler Meigs was an American educator, scholar, and Presbyterian clergyman. Although best known as the founder and principal (headmaster) of The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Meigs also served a short term as U.S. Consul to Piraeus, Greece, pastored churches, and preceded his time at The Hill School with teaching posts at a variety of other secondary and university level institutions including a short term as President of Delaware College (subsequently the University of Delaware).
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George Carleton Lacy
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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George Carleton Lacy was an American Methodist missionary and the last Methodist Bishop in Mainland China.
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Chester Lyman
- Occupations
- astronomereducatorsurveyor
- Biography
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Chester Smith Lyman was an American teacher, clergyman and astronomer.
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Francis L. Garrett
- Occupations
- military personnel
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Francis Leonard Garrett was a Rear Admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy.
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Charles O. Gill
- Occupations
- player of American football
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Charles Otis Gill was an American Congregationalist clergyman and college football player and coach. With Gifford Pinchot he co-authored two influential books on the state of rural churches in the United States.
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Hans Mol
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johannis Jacob Mol was a Dutch-born sociologist and Professor Emeritus in Religious Studies at McMaster University. He was President of the International Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Research Committee from 1974 to 1978. In 1978, Mol gave the Paine Lecture at the University of Missouri and was opening speaker at the International Conference for the Sociology of Religion in Tokyo, Japan. In 1985, he was the keynote speaker for the 15th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. Mol is listed as an important figure in the social sciences, receiving dedicated entries in publications such as Encyclopaedia of Religion and Society and Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction.
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Andrew Leete Stone
- Years
- 1815-1892 (aged 77)
- Biography
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Andrew Leete Stone was an author, Civil War chaplain, and pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Aaron Lucius Chapin
- Years
- 1817-1892 (aged 75)
- Biography
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Aaron Lucius Chapin was an American minister and the first president of Beloit College.
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Floyd Wilcox
- Years
- 1886-1958 (aged 72)
- Biography
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Floyd Cleveland Wilcox was the third president of Shimer College, serving from 1930 to 1935. His leadership, though marked by controversy, saw the school through the most difficult years of the Great Depression. He oversaw the transition of the school's curriculum from a two-year to a four-year junior college program.
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John Bunyan Reeve
- Biography
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John Bunyan Reeve was a Presbyterian minister and professor at Howard University. In 1871 he organized the department of theology at Howard.
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William Clarke Whitford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Clarke Whitford was an American educator, legislator, and pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church from Wisconsin.
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Edward Doane
- Years
- 1820-1890 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- missionary
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Edward Topping Doane was an American Protestant missionary who served in Micronesia.
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Ernest Lyon
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ernest A. Lyon was an African-American minister, educator and diplomat.
