Background
Gum, Walter Clarke was born on July 4, 1897 in Monterey, Virginia, United States. Son of William Early and Salie Maude (Taylor) Gum.
Gum, Walter Clarke was born on July 4, 1897 in Monterey, Virginia, United States. Son of William Early and Salie Maude (Taylor) Gum.
Graduate Monterey (Virginia) High School, 1914. Student Emory University, 1918-1919. Student Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1916-1918.
Doctor of Divinity, 1940.
Doctor of Laws, Kentucky Wesleyan College.
Russell (Mistress John Wiley.
Member general conference, jurisdictional conference, 1944. Member jurisdictional council of Southeastern Jurisdiction, vice chairman, 1956-1960, chairman board missions. Member Norfolk Community Council, 1944-1945.
Chairman general and jurisdictional conference delegations, 1948, 52, 56, 60.
Member Virginia Council Churches Chairman of the board of trustees of Randolph-Macon Academy, also Randolph-Macon College. Member Omicron Delta Kappa, Theta Phi.
Mason. (grand chaplain, Virginia 1946-1960.
Married Mary Lucille Hendrick, October 31, 1919.