Henry Churchill King
Henry Churchill King | |
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6th President of Oberlin College | |
In office 1902 – June 1927[1] |
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Preceded by | John Henry Barrows |
Succeeded by | Ernest Hatch Wilkins |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Hillsdale, Michigan |
September 18, 1858
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[1] Oberlin, Ohio[1] |
Spouse(s) | Julia Coates King[1] |
Children | Philip Coates King, Donald Storrs King, Edgar Weld King, Harold Lee King[1] |
Residence | Oberlin, Ohio |
Alma mater | Oberlin College (A.B., 1879) Oberlin Theological Seminary (B.D., 1882)[1] |
Profession | theologian, educator, author |
Religion | Congregationalist |
Henry Churchill King (1858–1934) was an American Congregationalist theologian, educator, and author.
Career overview
At Oberlin College from 1884, he taught in mathematics, philosophy, and theology. From 1902 to 1927, he was president of the college.[2] With a tenure of 25 years, is Oberlin's longest-serving president.[3] In 1919, he served on the King-Crane Commission, whose recommendations on the fair and just disposition of non-Turkish areas of the Ottoman Empire might, had they been followed, would have averted many of the tragedies that have come to pass in the Middle East since that time. The findings of that commission, suppressed until 1922, were finally made public in the King-Crane Commission Report and shed tremendous light on the wishes of the indigenous peoples of the region, as to who would be entrusted with the various mandates, the future of Palestine, and other vital issues.
He was prominent in the councils of the Congregational Church and a moderator (1919–21) of its National Council as well as chairman (1921–27) of the Congregational Foundation for Education.
Bibliography
- Reconstruction in Theology (1901)
- Rational Living (1905)
- The Ethics of Jesus (1910)
- Fundamental Questions (1917)
- For A New America In A New World (1919)
- The King-Crane Commission Report (August 28, 1919)
- Seeing Life Whole (1923)
References
External links
- Works by Henry Churchill King at Project Gutenberg
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