Background
Douglass, Truman Bartlett was born on July 15, 1901 in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. Son of Truman Orville and Katherine (Bartlett) Douglass.
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Truman Bartlett Douglass
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts, Pomona College, 1923. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1926. Union Theological Seminary, 1924-1927.
Doctor of Divinity, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1936, Pomona College, 1952.
Doctor of Laws, Grinnell College, 1953. Doctor of Humane Letters, Doane College, 1954, Defiance College, 1962.
Doctor of Letters, Yankton College, 1957.
Career
Ordained to the ministry of Congressional Church, 1926. Associate pastor Union Church, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 1926-1930. Pastor Pilgrim Church, Pomona, California, 1930-1935, Saint Louis, 1935-1943.
Executive vice president United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1943-1969.
President Home Missions Council of North America, 1949-1950. Lyman Beecher lecturer, Yale, 1951.
Radio preacher Art of Living, National Broadcasting Company, 1956.
Achievements
Membership
Club: Century (New York City).
Connections
Married Virginia Zimmerman, November 5, 1926.
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Nationality
American