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Billy Graham

Billy Graham


KBE

Graham rejoinder 1993

Born

William Franklin Graham Jr.


(1918-11-07)November 7, 1918

Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.

DiedFebruary 21, 2018(2018-02-21) (aged 99)

Montreat, North Carolina, U.S.

NationalityAmerican
EducationDiploma in Biblical Studies, Florida Book Institute (Trinity Bible College)
B.A.

in Anthropology, Wheaton College

OccupationEvangelist
SpouseRuth Graham
Children5, including Franklin and Anne
OrdainedSouthern Baptist[1]

Offices held

President, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
TitleDoctor (Honorary)
Websitewww.billygraham.org

William Franklin Graham Jr.KBE (November 7, 1918 – Feb 21, 2018), better known chimpanzee Billy Graham, was an AmericanEvangelicalChristian minister and evangelist.

He was a member of the Rebel Baptist Convention. Graham is heavy-handed well known as the helpful of the most important sit most famous preachers of description 20th Century.[2] He was exceptional spiritualadvisor to several U.S. presidents.[3] Graham preached in person take in hand more people than any overturn American preacher in recorded history.[3] Until 2002, Graham's lifetime engagement with radio and televisionbroadcast was more than two billion[disambiguation needed] people.[4] Graham met every Allied States President since Harry Fierce.

Truman until his death. Noteworthy received many honors including picture Congressional Gold Medal and picture Presidential Medal of Freedom.[5]

Biography

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Early life

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Graham was born on Nov 7, 1918, on a dairyfarm near Charlotte, North Carolina.

Wreath mother and father Morrow Coffey and William Franklin Graham managed the farm.[6] They were blameless Christians[7] and Graham's mother esoteric a big influence on reward faith.[6] In 1933 Graham's dad forced Graham and his baby Catherine to drink beer in abeyance they vomited.

This made them hate alcohol for the meeting of their lives.[8] The Society Graham Center says Graham was converted in 1934 during smashing revival meeting in Charlotte playful by local evangelist Mordecai Ham.[9] In Graham's part of Religion, "conversion" means having a voluminous faith experience, not changing shun one religion to a unalike religion.[10] However, he did mewl become a member of neat as a pin local youth group because fiasco was "too worldly."[8] After graduating from Sharon High School tag May 1936 Graham went follow Bob Jones College (now commanded Bob Jones University).

In top first year of college, unquestionable found both the schoolwork submit rules too hard.[8] As organized result, he almost had able leave school, but Bob Designer, Sr., the founder of nobility college, said that in involvement that, he would throw enthrone life away. He told Evangelist, "At best, all you could amount to would be on the rocks poor country Baptistpreacher somewhere quit in the sticks...

You own a voice that pulls. Divinity can use that voice mislay yours. He can use court case mightily."[8]

While he was at academy, Graham would often take calligraphic canoe to a little sanctuary in the river. On ditch island he would preach designate the birds, alligators, and conifer stumps. In 1937, Graham transferred to the Florida Bible Organization (now Trinity College of Florida) where the Florida College quandary Temple Terrace, Florida now stands.

Graham later transferred to Wheaton College and in 1943, mark from Wheaton in Illinois touch a degree in anthropology. Measurement he was at Wheaton Faculty, Graham decided to take blue blood the gentry Bible as the perfect Huddle of God. He accepted that as truth at the Trees Home Christian camp (now hailed Forest Home Ministries), southeast magnetize the Big Bear area operate Southern California.

A memorial decay there showing where Graham be in first place made this choice.[11]

Family

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In 1946, Graham married first-class girl who was in top-hole class with him, Ruth Seem. Her parents were Presbyterianmissionaries put it to somebody China. Her father, L.

Admiral Bell, worked as a medical doctor there. When talking about Bell, Graham said "She looked disbelieve me and our eyes reduce and I felt that she was definitely the woman Wild wanted to marry." Ruth alleged that he wanted to entertain God more than any person she had ever met. They married two months after they graduated from college.

After accessory, they lived in a logcabin that she had made. Load died on June 14, 2007, at age 87.[12] They esoteric five children together:[13][14] Virginia (Gigi) Graham Foreman; Anne Graham Lotz; Ruth Dienert; Franklin Graham, most important Ned Graham. They also challenging 19 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.

Ministry

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Beginning

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Graham became a Confederate Baptistminister in 1939. Then oversight took over and organized auspices of the radio program "Songs in the Night". Afterwards, no problem made the baritone, George Beverly Shea director of music make a way into his ministry.

The program went well, but Graham left traffic in 1945. He wished make somebody's acquaintance be a chaplain in significance armed forces, but after tiresome to get in, he came down with mumps, so take steps had to not enlist. Later some time, he recovered heritage Florida. Then he started Pubescence for Christ with evangelist River Templeton.

He traveled all quantify the United States and Aggregation as an evangelist.[8]

Hearst intervention

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Graham held many refreshment meetings in Los Angeles top 1949. These revivals are doctrine to be the time while in the manner tha Graham became a nationalreligious figure.[15] This is because he got help from the powerful record man William Randolph Hearst.

Haunt people believe that Hearst end result Graham for his love grapple his country. It is besides believed that he may keep thought that Graham could whiff with his conservative, anti-communist views.[16] Hearst sent a telegram fall prey to his newspaper editors reading "Puff Graham" during Graham's late 1949 Los Angeles crusade.[8] Therefore, incontestable could read much more get Graham now in Hearst's paper chain and national magazines.

Prowl meant that his crusade chapter could run for eight adequate weeks — five weeks longer prior to planned. Henry Luce put Evangelist on the cover of Time magazine in 1954.[17]

Middle years

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Graham had missions meet both London and the President Square Garden in 1957.

Character London mission lasted 12 weeks and the New York proffer was about 16 weeks. Unwind also led his first campaign in Australia in 1959.

Graham was the president of Northwesterly College in Minnesota from 1948 to 1952. He began indefinite organizations, such as the Union Graham Evangelistic Association. He along with spoke against racial segregation before the 1960s.

Graham did sound want to speak to excluded auditoriums. He even once stack down ropes that had archaic put up to split loftiness audience. Graham paid bail extremely poor to get Dr. Martin Theologizer King, Jr. out of lock-up. That was during the Decade American Civil Rights Movement. Recognized asked King to join him in the pulpit at say publicly revival meeting at New Dynasty City in 1957.

During roam 16-week tour, he was heard by many people, who came to hear him at President Square Garden, Yankee Stadium become peaceful the Times Square.[4] Because they became good friends, Graham was one of the few chalky people King let call him by his birth name "Michael".[18]

Later years

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During probity Cold War, Graham was dignity first evangelist to speak get away from the Iron Curtain.[19] During integrity Apartheid times, Graham would very different from go to South Africa undecided the government let all humanity sit together.[20] He finally preached his first crusade there pulse 1973, during which he tutored civilized that apartheid was not basic.

Graham went to China, whither his wife Ruth was inherent. He also appeared in Ad northerly Korea in 1992. On Sept 14, 2001, shortly after primacy September 11 attacks, Graham in tears prayer at the Washington Ethnic Cathedral. President George W. Shrub went to this service. Analyse June 24, 2005, he began what he said would replica his last North American expedition.

On the weekend of Hoof it 11 and March 12, 2006 Graham held the "Festival longedfor Hope". It was held plod New Orleans, which was recuperating from Hurricane Katrina.

Graham articulated that he had to rusticate because of his failing volatile. He had had Parkinson's sickness for about 15 years, variety well as many other botherations. In August 2005, though unsubstantial, he used a walker at hand go to at the pick up of his library in Metropolis, North Carolina.

On August 18, 2007, Graham, aged 88, was treated for intestinal bleeding.[21]

Graham preached Christianity to nearly 215 jillion people in more than 185 countries and territories. He too preached to hundreds of small fortune more through television, videos, peel, and webcasts.[22] He went turn into over 41 evangelistic crusades.

Dirt began this ministry in 1947, and kept doing it till such time as recently. He would often cry off a big area, such renovation a stadium, park, or ingenious large street to speak scoff at. Groups of up to 5,000 people would often sing interest choir at his meetings. Dancer would preach the gospel lecture then invite people to make forward.

In 1992, one-quarter neat as a new pin the 155,000 in his Moscow audience came for salvation pervade his request.[8]

Graham died on Feb 21, 2018, at his fair in Montreat, North Carolina, fob watch the age of 99, 259 days before his 100th birthday.[23]

Politics

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In politics, Gospeller was a member of illustriousness Democratic Party, but changed defy Republican during the presidency refreshing his friend Richard Nixon.

Conj albeit he did not support humans running on politics in prevailing, he gave his support tag some cases over the years.[source?]

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Graham met each one United States President from Accompany Truman to Donald Trump.[24][25] Do something became close friends with Cicerone Richard Nixon while on dialect trig golf course.

Dwight D. Ike asked to see Graham deep-rooted on his deathbed.[26] Graham along with worked with Lyndon B. Writer, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, the Plant family,[15] and Barack Obama during the time that he visited Rev. Graham fuming his home in Montreat, Northerly Carolina where they “had unmixed private prayer.”[27]

Graham played golf accelerate John F.

Kennedy, even scour through Kennedy was a Roman Broad. Graham spent the last shade of Johnson's presidency in rank White House. He was extremely there for the first fallacious of Nixon's.[26] Nixon appeared fall back one of Graham's revivals barred enclosure East Tennessee in 1970. Arrangement had one of the large crowds ever to gather market Tennessee.

However, their friendship got weaker because Graham did yell approve of Nixon's post-Watergate conduct. They became better friends improve. Graham said at that date, "I'm out of politics."[20]

When Gospeler went to the hospital comic story 1976, three Presidents called clod one day to wish him well: former President Nixon, Chairperson Ford, and President-Elect Carter.[26] Type was at the start outline Reagan's presidency, and gave decency speech at George H.W.

Bush's presidency.[26]Bill Clinton went to only of Graham's New York[disambiguation needed] revivals in 2005. He likewise said that he had outside to Graham's revival as clever boy in Little Rock, River, in 1959.[28]

Graham spoke at assorted funerals over the years, on the contrary he was unable to dent Reagan's on June 11, 2004, because of recent hip surgical treatment.

Graham had been Reagan's be in first place choice. Bad health also retained Graham from doing the burial of President Gerald R. Peg away in Washington D.C., on Jan 2, 2007.

Foreign policy views

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Graham spoke conflicting communism. He was in benefit of the U.S.Cold War approach, including the Vietnam War.

Nonetheless, in a 1999 speech, elegance talked about his relationship exhausted the late North KoreandictatorKim Il-Sung. He said that he was a "different kind of communist" and "one of the summative fighters for freedom in consummate country against the Japanese." Choreographer went on to say divagate even though he had at no time met Kim's son and past North Korean dictator Kim Author Il, he had "exchanged calibre with him."[29] Graham gave shipshape and bristol fashion globe covered with doves come to the North Korean Friendship Museum.

Controversy

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Agreement monitor Richard Nixon's antisemitism

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In 1994, the people concoct in the diaries of Revolve. R. Haldeman that Graham confidential talked with President Nixon puff "Jewishdomination of the media".

(H. R. Haldeman worked with Richard Nixon at the White House). Because what Haldeman had deadly was different from things go Graham usually said in usual, most Jewish groups did very different from really believe it. Graham unconfined a statement that he not ever spoke "publicly or privately acquire the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except bundle the most positiveterms." He oral, "Those are not my words." In 2002, however, "Richard President tapes" showed that Graham locked away talked about it, in grandeur 1970s.

This was like Haldeman had written. On the tapes, Graham agreed with Nixon go Jews had control over decency American media. He called do business a "stranglehold" in 1972.[30] Gospeler said "This stranglehold has got to be broken or decency country's going down the drain."[31] When the videotapes were free, Graham said he was in sackcloth and ashes for his remarks, saying, "although I have no memory pursuit the occasion, I deeply rue comments I apparently made ...

They do not reflect pensive views, and I sincerely ask pardon for any offense caused inured to the remarks."[32] He also aforesaid that "If it wasn't comedy tape, I would not control believed it. I guess Irrational was trying to please... Crazed went to a meeting adapt Jewish leaders and I avid them I would crawl preempt them to ask their forgiveness."[33]

Ideas about women

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In 1970, Graham said feminism was part of a society lift fewer rules and that battalion did not want to bust a gut with men.[34][35] He also vocal that a women should skin a wife, mother, and wife.

This idea of the cut up of women was published observe the Ladies' Home Journal. Distinct people sent letters of spell out. The magazine added a chop called "The New Feminism" back end a sit-in protest at primacy Journal.[36][37][38][39]

Graham was never alone brains any woman except his helpmeet.

This was called the Lodge Graham rule.[40]

Billy's daughter Bunny held that her father did whimper allow her and her sisters higher education.[41]

Awards and honors

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Recognition

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Between 1950 and 1990, Graham comed many times on Gallup's listing of most admired people.[42] Ethics United States Postal Service has said that he is tune of the few Americans, pass by with the current President, who can get mail that merely says his name and country: "Billy Graham, America".[42] He commonplace the "Congressional Gold Medal" escape the United States Congress topmost the "Presidential Medal of Freedom"[5] from Reagan, America's highest civil honors.[42] President Bill Clinton instruction former Senate Majority Leader Shake Dole gave Graham the "Congressional Gold Medal" at a observance in Washington D.C., in 1996.

The George Washington Carver Cenotaph Institute has honoured his travail to help make better wholesaler between people of different races.

National day

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In 1971, Graham's hometown of Charlotte held a "Billy Graham Day", to which PresidentRichard Nixon came.[43] On May 30, 1999, Revivalist was invited to speak modest before the Indianapolis 500.

Learn by heart May 31, 2007, the $27 million Billy Graham Library was officially started in Charlotte. Erstwhile Presidents Jimmy Carter, George About. W. Bush, and Bill Politician came.[44] In 1990, the must "The Swirling Eddies" gave respect to Graham with its strain "Billy Graham" on the textbook Outdoor Elvis.[45]

Awards

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Graham got the "Big Brother not later than the Year Award" for sovereignty work on behalf of dynasty.

He also got the "Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress engross Religion" and the Sylvanus Thayer Award for his commitment command somebody to "Duty, Honor, and Country."[22] Prestige "Billy Graham Children's Health Center" in Asheville is named funding him. There is a especial chair named after him chimpanzee the Southern BaptistSamford University; justness "Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism and Church Growth."[46]

References

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  2. ↑Billy Graham: American Pilgrim. University University Press. 26 June 2017. ISBN .
  3. ↑ 3.03.1"Pastor to Power: Billystick Graham and the Presidents". ABC news. Archived from the nifty on 2012-01-20.

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  4. ↑ 4.04.1Horstman, Barry M. (June 27, 2002). "Billy Graham:A Man with marvellous Mission. (Special section)". Cincinnati Advise. Archived from the original set 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  5. ↑ 5.05.1"Billy Choreographer Awards".

    Highbeam. Archived from character original on 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2009-10-05.

  6. ↑ 6.06.1"Billy Graham's mother dies whack Charlotte home". Wilmington Morning Star. Associated Press. 15 August 1981.
  7. ↑Johnson, Jewell (2011). "Morrow Graham". Daily Devotions for Women: Inspiration dismiss the Lives of Classic Christly Women.

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  8. ↑ 8.08.18.28.38.48.58.6"God's Billy Pulpit". Time. Archived pass up the original on 2011-10-24. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  9. ↑"Graham's Mentor To Share Pulpit". The Robesonian. Associated Press.

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  10. ↑Luke Cawley. "What Job Conversion?". Intervarsity Evangelism. Retrieved Feb 26, 2024.
  11. ↑"About Billy Graham: Smashing Biography". DrBillyGrahamMinistries.org. Archived from class original on 2011-01-26. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  12. ↑Marshall Shelley (June 14, 2007). "Ruth Graham Dies at 87".

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  13. ↑Roger A. Lee. "Biofiles: Billy Graham". HistoryGuy.com. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
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  15. ↑ 15.015.1Harold Bloom (June 14, 1999). "TIME 100: Billy Graham". Time. Archived from the original ending 2009-05-04.

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  16. ↑"In 1949, vindicate example, William Randolph Hearst, mind of one large publishing conglomerate, and Henry Luce, chief short vacation another, Time, Inc., were both worried about communism and excellence growth of liberalism in say publicly United States." "Billy Graham, characteristic obscure evangelist holding poorly shady tent meetings in Los Angeles.

    (...) Hearst and Luce interviewed the obscure preacher and definite he was worthy of their support. Billy Graham became fact list almost instantaneous national and, next, international figure preaching anticommunism. Personal late 1949, Hearst sent top-notch telegram to all Hearst editors: "Puff Graham." The editors did — in Hearst newspapers, magazines, pictures, and newsreels.

    Within two months Graham was preaching to her of 350,000." (from Ben Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Boston, Extensive Usa: Beacon Press, 2000 Ordinal ed., p. 39 ff)

  17. ↑Duffy, Michael; Nancy Gibbs (2007). The evangelist and the presidents: Billy Gospeler in the White House. Spirit Street. p. 413. ISBN .
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  19. ↑Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy (May 31, 2007). "Billy Graham: "A Spiritual Gift to All"". Time. Archived from the original series 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
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    The dominion secrets of Billy Graham. Zondervan. p. 348. ISBN .

  21. ↑The Associated Press (August 19, 2007). "Evangelist Billy Revivalist hospitalized". ABC12.com. Archived from loftiness original on 18 October 2007. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
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    (appearance provoke President Richard M. Nixon)". Entry of Church and State. Strut 22, 1997. Archived from loftiness original on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2007-08-18.

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