Samuel Courts Redford, was a Southern Baptist minister, professor, university president, and executive secretary-treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board from 1954-1964.
Education
Bachelor"s Degree, (1920), Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma
Master"s Degree, (1927), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas
Honorary Doctorate, Oklahoma Baptist University
Honorary Doctorate, William Carey College.
Career
He pastored churches, later served on the faculty of his alma mater, then in 1930 assumed the presidency of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. Courts Redford married Helen Ruth Ford and together they had nine children: Virginia, Elizabeth, John, Rosemary, David, Sylvia, Bill, Courts Junior., Jeanette and Caroline.