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"The
Pastor to the Presidents" Famous
and influential American Evangelical
Christian minister and media
personality, the Reverend Billy Graham
played a significant part of the growth
of evangelical Christianity in the
United States and in the world in the
mid- and late-Twentieth Century. His
"Crusades," huge gatherings of
believing Christians, drew thousands of
the faithful to hear his message, as
millions more audience members
participated through the medium of the
television. He was considered one of
the best known Protestant
Fundamentalist preachers in America,
with a significant following, and the
unofficial title of Minister to
America's Presidents. He served as a
spiritual advisor to every U.S.
President from Dwight Eisenhower to
Barack Obama. He
became a minister in the Southern
Baptist Church in 1939, entered Wheaton
College in Illinois and began preaching
in Chicago in the early 1940s. While in
Chicago, he began a radio program in
order to reach more people with his
message. Throughout his career, he
deftly used the media to enlarge the
range of his voice and his message. In
1949, Graham gained national attention
with a preaching campaign he called a
"crusade," in Los Angeles. The
nationwide focus of his newfound
publicity was aided by the desire of
newspaper magnate William Randolph
Hearst, who increased his newspaper's
coverage of Graham because of the
strong anti-Communist fervor the young
preacher showed in his sermons and his
messages. After
a three-month long crusade in New York
City in 1957, Billy Graham became one
of the leaders of the national
Protestant Fundamentalist movement. His
ability to speak to the common man,
hearkening back to his roots in the
hills of North Carolina, enabled him to
connect with millions of ordinary
Americans in his long and influential
career. Ruth
Graham, Billy Graham's closest friend
and confidant and his wife of 64 years,
died on June 14, 2007. A
new book was released in the summer of
2007, The
Preacher and the Presidents: Billy
Graham in the White
House On
April 25, 2010, Billy Graham's record
of relationships with American
presidents continued as President
Barack Obama visited Reverend Graham at
his home in North Carolina, where they
prayed together. Billy
Graham was hospitalized on May 11,
2011, with pneumonia. Graham was taken
to Mission Hospital, near his Montreat,
North Carolina, home. He experienced
episodes of sweating and
coughing,” a spokesman said, and
“had a slight fever and
experienced difficulty breathing. But
he was never in any distress or in an
acute situation.” Once
again, in Novemer, 2011, Reverend
Graham entered the hospital with a case
of pneumonia. Graham recovered from
this illness, and lived out the rest of
his life at his home at
Montreat. Billy
Graham, America's Preacher, died
peacefully at his home on the morning
of February 21, 2018, at the age of
99. Video
of Billy Graham's 1st Crusade in Los
Angeles, California in
1949 Billy
Graham is the author of over 24
best-selling books. (See
below) Education: --Wheaton
College, Wheaton, IL, --1943 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
Anthropology. Accomplishments: --Founded
the Billy Graham Evangelical
Association in the 1950s. Billy
Graham retired in 2000, and turned the
organization over to his son and
successor, the Reverend Franklin
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Family William
Franklin Graham ( d.
1962)--Father Morrow
Coffey Graham ( d.
1981)
--Mother Ruth
McCue Bell (June 10, 1920 –
June 14,
2007)--Wife Children Anne
Morrow Graham
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(b. 1948) Ruth
Bell Graham
-
(b. 1950) William
Franklin Graham,
III-
(b. 1952) Nelson
Edman Graham
-
(b. 1958) Associates,
Colleagues, &
Connections President
Dwight Eisenhower William
Randolph Hearst President
Richard Nixon Links
and Resources on the Reverend Billy
Graham BillyGraham.org--The
latest news and schedules for
Reverend Graham's ministry
Hour
of Decision
Online--Reverend
Graham's weekly radio broadcast,
with archives of past shows
From
Pulpit to Politics, a
World-Famous
Evangelist--NPR
radio interview with author
Michael Duffy about his new book
on Reverend Graham's relationship
with many American
presidents. Obama
meets, prays with Rev. Billy
Graham--CNN,
April 25, 2010 Billy
Graham admitted to
hospital
--BBC News, May 11,
2011 |
,
detailing Reverend Graham's
relationships with American presidents
and politicians from the 1940s through
the administration of George W.
Bush.