Background
Alexander, John Harvey was born on October 19, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John and Elizabeth (Coffin) Alexander.
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Alexander, John Harvey was born on October 19, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John and Elizabeth (Coffin) Alexander.
AB, Bowdoin College, 1948. Master of Divinity, Bangor Theological Seminary, 1951. Doctor of Divinity, Piedmont College, 1970.
Ordained to ministry Congressional Church, 1948, minister Winthrop, Maine, 1943-1949, Galewood Community Church, Chicago, 1949-1956. Associate minister 1st Congressional Church, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 1956-1962, minister Marshalltown, Iowa, 1962-1967. Moderator organizational meeting National Association Congressional Christian Churches, Detroit, 1955, chairman executive committee, 1960-1961, associate executive secretary, 1967-1969, executive secretary, 1969-1975.
(founding) minister Congressional Church, Sun City, Arizona, 1976-1987, minister emeritus, from 1987. Delaware International Congressional Council, Rotterdam, Holland, 1962. Supervisor National Pilgrim Fellowship Youth Work-camp to Greece, 1964.
President Marshall County (Iowa) Council Churches, 1965-1966. Secretary-treasurer, board directors Committee for Continuation of Congressional Christian Churches, since 1962. Administrative visitor to World-Wide overseas missions, 1969.
President Sun City Area Ministers Association, 1978-1980. Chairman 36th ward Citizens' Advisory Council, Chicago, 1954-1956.
Member of Rotarian (board directors 1964-1967), Mason (32 degree).
Married Donna Eloise Estabrooke, June 27, 1943. Children– John Kenneth, Karen Jean (Mistress Thomas F. Hoffman), Margaret Jane, Elizabeth Annual.