Career
He started the history department at the Eastern Nazarene College in 1921, and Benner Hall and Benner Library on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University are named after him. Doctor Benner was born near Marion, Ohio. After serving the Church as a college professor and later as a pastor at Santa Monica, California.
Spokane, Washington.
And Kansas City First Church, Doctor Benner was elected the first president of the Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1944. He was elected general superintendent in 1952 and served in this position until retirement in 1968. He was general superintendent emeritus until his death in 1975.
