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(b.
1918)
"The
Pastor to the Presidents" William
"Billy" Franklin Graham- (November 7,
1918-Present) --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 is 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 has
served as a spiritual advisor to every
U.S. President since Dwight
Eisenhower. 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, he 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, N.C.,
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. 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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Memoirs
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
-
(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 Site
Map--revision
in progress |
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detailing Reverend Graham's relationships
with American presidents and politicians
from the 1940s through the administration
of George W. Bush.
