11 Notable alumni of
United Theological Seminary
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United Theological Seminary is 2848th in the world, 989th in North America, and 936th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from United Theological Seminary 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 Storm
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Howard Storm is an American Christian minister, writer, and painter. He is a former professor and chairman of the art department at Northern Kentucky University. In 2000, he authored My Descent Into Death, which chronicles his near-death experience. Storm's near-death experience has been cited in literature on near-death studies, and his book has garnered endorsement by gothic fiction writer Anne Rice before it was acquired by Doubleday and republished in 2005. Storm has retold his story on NBC's Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, 48 Hours, Discovery Channel and Coast to Coast AM.
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Vashti Murphy McKenzie
- Occupations
- methodist bishopjournalistreligious writer
- Biography
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Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the interim president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. She is also a retired bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and author of six books. In 2000, McKenzie became the first woman to be elected as bishop in the denomination's history. She later served as President of the Council of Bishops, becoming the first woman to serve as Titular head of the AME Church.
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Floyd H. Flake
- Enrolled in United Theological Seminary
- In 1995 graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- pastorpolitician
- Biography
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Floyd Harold Flake is an American businessman, minister, and former politician who is the senior pastor of the 23,000-member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and the 18th president of Wilberforce University. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1987 to 1997.
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Dwight Clinton Jones
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dwight Clinton Jones is an American politician and pastor who served as the 79th Mayor of Richmond, Virginia. Jones took office on January 1, 2009, was inaugurated for his second term on January 12, 2013, and was succeeded by Levar Stoney on December 31, 2016. Jones is a member of the Democratic Party, and was elected chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia on March 15, 2014.
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DeForest Soaries
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Reverend DeForest Blake "Buster" Soaries, Jr. is an African-American Baptist minister, author and public advocate, from Montclair, New Jersey. He is the former Secretary of State of New Jersey and former chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission. He was the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, a position he had held since November 1990 until his retirement from the church in June 2021.
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Suzan Johnson Cook
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianpastortelevision producer
- Biography
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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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Dave Koehler
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Koehler is a Democratic politician from Illinois, and has been the Illinois State Senator from 46th Legislative District since December 2006. The district includes Canton, East Peoria, Fairview, Lewistown, Mapleton, Peoria, Pekin and West Peoria.
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Amos C. Brown
- Occupations
- pastorcivil rights advocate
- Biography
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Amos Cleophilus Brown is an African American pastor and civil rights activist. He is the president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, and has been the pastor of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco since 1976. Brown was one of only eight students who took the only college class ever taught by Martin Luther King Jr. He serves on the board of the California Reparations Task Force.
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Leonard N. Smith
- Years
- 1961-2022 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- pastor
- Biography
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Leonard N. Smith was the senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, with a congregation exceeding 2,000. Mount Zion Baptist Church, founded in 1866, is the oldest Black congregation in Arlington, Virginia.
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Melvin O. McLaughlin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Melvin Orlando McLaughlin was an American Republican Party politician.
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Henry Harness Fout
- Years
- 1860-1947 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Henry Harness Fout was an author and a missionary for the Near East Foundation which aimed to assist Armenian refugees from the genocide who were dispersed throughout the Middle East. He was one of eighteen commission members returning to the United States from the Near East in 1919, when he reported on the massacre of Armenians.
