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James Milton Carroll was one of twelve children born to Benajah and Mary Eliza Carroll (née Mallard).His father was a Baptist minister. Born near Monticello, Arkansas, he moved in 1858 at age six with his family to Burleson County, Texas.
John William Dunjee (also John Dungy or John Dungee) (1833 – April 19, 1903) was an American missionary, educator, Baptist minister, publisher, agent of Storer College and founder of Baptist churches across the United States.
Robert Pierce (1914–1978) was an American Baptist minister and relief worker. He is best known as the founder of the international charity organizations World Vision International in 1950 and Samaritan's Purse in 1970.
Angelique Walker-Smith (born 1958) is an American Baptist minister and ecumenical leader. In September 2022, she was elected as president of the World Council of Churches, representing the North America region. [1] She is ordained in the National Baptist Convention, USA. Since 2014, she has been on the national staff of Bread for the World ...
Gowan Pamphlet (1748–1807) was an American Baptist minister and freedman who founded the Black Baptist Church (now known as First Baptist Church) in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. [1] [2] He was one of the first and, for a time, the only ordained African American preacher of any denomination in the American Colonies. [3] [4]
Batten graduated from Bucknell University in 1885, and served as a Baptist minister in Morristown, New Jersey, where he preached against alcohol consumption and gambling. [3] He was an adamant proponent of democracy for its Christian appeal. [4] In 1908, he established the Commission on Social Service of the American Baptist Association. [5]
The leadership of John Hope, who was the first African American president, renamed the college to Morehouse College in 1913 to honor Morehouse, who had donated funds to the college but had been a white northern-born prominent minister of American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York. [5] [6] Morehouse died on May 5, 1917. [7]
Isaac Backus (January 9, 1724 – November 20, 1806) was a leading Baptist minister during the era of the American Revolution who campaigned against state-established churches in New England. Little is known of his childhood.