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General Adventist President

Reuben Richard Figuhr, American Clergyman. Ordained to ministry, Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1918.

Background

Figuhr, Reuben Richard was born on October 20, 1896 in Superior, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Jacob Edward and Julia (Ferrus) Figuhr.

Education

Student, Pacific Union College, Angwin, California, 1919-1920; AB, Walla Walla College, 1922.

Career

Figuhr died in Napa, California on October 28, 1983. Reuben Richard Figuhr was born of Prussian descent on October 20, 1896, in Wisconsin. He served in the Philippines and then as the president of the South American Division, and then at the age of 58, just a year before the evangelical conferences, Figuhr became president of the General Conference (1954–1966).

He became embroiled in a controversy over the publishing of Questions on Doctrine which became the centerpiece event of his administration.

At times he was frustrated by how far Le Roy Edwin Froom and M. L. Andreasen were going into the debate over the book But he stood behind lieutenant

Figuhr died in Napa, California on October 28, 1983.

Achievements

  • Reuben Richard Figuhr has been listed as a noteworthy Clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married May-Belle Holt, July 4, 1918. Children: Richard Allen, Wilma Jean Figuhr Appel.

Father:
Jacob Edward Figuhr

Mother:
Julia (Ferrus) Figuhr

Spouse:
May-Belle Holt

child:
Wilma Jean Figuhr Appel Figuhr

child:
Richard Allen Figuhr