Background
Warren, Casper Carl was born on May 28, 1896 in Sampson Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of Richard Moore and Rosella (Strickland) Warren.
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Casper Carl Warren
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Bachelor of Arts, Wake Forest College, 1917, Bachelor of Laws, 1920, Doctor of Divinity, 1948. Master of Theology, Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, 1925, Doctor of Theology, 1928. Doctor of Divinity, Ouachita College, Arkansas, 1944.
Career
Ordained to ministry, Baptist Church, 1922. Pastor Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, Danville, Kentucky, 1928-1938, Immanuel Baptist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1938-1943, First Baptist Church, Charlotte, 1943-1958. Director 30,000 Movement, Southern Baptist Convention, from 1958.
Guest preacher Baptist Hour and Columbia Church of Air, 1948. President North Carolina Baptist State Convention, 1946-1947. 1st vice president Southern Baptist Convention, 1953, president pastor’s conference 1952-1953.
President North Carolina Baptist General Board 1950-1954. President Southern Baptist Executive Committee, 1953. President of Southern Baptist Convention, 1955.
Membership
Served as Second lieutenant CAC, World War I. Club: Charlotte Executives.
Connections
Married Mary Lashbrook Strickland, August 26, 1925.
