Background
Wilson, Grover Cleveland was born on August 24, 1922 in Hazard, Kentucky, United States. Son of Grover Cleveland and Agnes Kathleen (Garrow) Wilson.
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Grover Cleveland Wilson
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Bachelor of Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1947; Bachelor's Degree, Yale University, 1951; Master of Divinity, Yale University, 1963.
Career
Assistant pastor, Huguenot Memorial Church, Pelham Manor, New York, 1951-1955; associate pastor, 1st Presbyterian Church, Stamford, Connecticut, 1958-1970; executive director, Council of Churches, Stamford, 1971-1978; with, Maumee Valley Presbytery, Findlay, Ohio., 1978-1980; pastor, Presbyterian Churches, Lemoyne and Keystone, Nebraska, 1983-1986; pastor, Presbyterian Churches, Milan and Green City, Missoury, from 1986.
Membership
Co-organizer Friendship House, Stamford, 1960, Community Return, Stamford, 1970, Council of Churches and Synagogues, Stamford, 1975. Vice president, board of directors National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Stamford, 1970-1978. Board directors Veterans of HECUS, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1970-1978.
Served to corporal United States Army, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations, Prisoner of War, France and Germany.
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Married Mary Starke Higgenbotham, September 3, 1949 (divorced August 1978). Children: Scott, Karen Adair, Grover III.
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Political Party
Democrat