Background
Binns, Walter Pope was born on September 18, 1895 in Washington, Georgia, United States. Son of James Walter and Laura (Arnold) Binns.
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Walter Pope Binns
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Bachelor of Arts, Mercer U., 1918, Doctor of Divinity, 1929, Doctor of Laws, 1947. Master of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1923. Doctor of Laws, Occidental College, 1951, Tulane University, 1956.
Career
Blanche Mallary (Mistress Charles Armstrong Wetzell). Ordained, Southern Baptist Church, 1917 pastor Cherokee Heights Church, Macon, Georgia, 1917-1918 First Church, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, 1918-1923, First Church, Moultrie, Georgia, 1923-1926, La Grange, 1926-1931, First Church, Roanoke, Virginia, 1931-1943. President William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, 1943-1962.
Pastor First Baptist Church, Silver Spring, Maryland., since 1962. Board directors The Americas Foundation.
Membership
Served as First lieutenant chaplain, United States Army, World War I. Member Relief and Annuity Board, 1929-1931, Education Commission, 1928-1931, Foreign Mission Board, 1931-1935, Executive Committee 1933-1943, chairman administrative committee 1935-1943—all of Southern Baptist Convention. Member Virginia Baptist Orphanage Board.
Member Military Order of World War (Kansas City chapter). President Roanoke Community Fund. Member Shakespeare Seven (Southern Baptists Theological Seminary), Missouri Historical Society (vice president), Phi Delta Theta.
Clubs: Rotary, Excelsior Springs Golf.
Connections
Married Blanche Mallary, November 1918. Children: Edgar Mallary, Emma Arnold (Mistress James Robert Bercaw), James Walter.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Democrat