J. D. Grey
| James David "J. D." Grey | |
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| 28th President of the Southern Baptist Convention | |
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In office 1952–1954 |
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| Preceded by | Robert G. Lee |
| Succeeded by | J. W. Storer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 18, 1906 Princeton, Caldwell County Kentucky, USA |
| Died | July 26, 1985 (aged 78) New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Resting place |
Metairie, Jefferson Parish Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Lillian Tooke Grey (married 1927-1985, his death) |
| Children |
Martha Ann Cantrell |
| Residence | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| Occupation | Pastor, First Baptist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana |
Martha Ann Cantrell
J. D. Grey, sometimes known by his adopted name as James David Grey (December 18, 1906 – July 26, 1985), was a major figure in the Southern Baptist Convention who from 1937 to 1972 was the pastor of the large First Baptist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana.
A native of Princeton in Caldwell County in western Kentucky, Grey was reared in Paducah, a city in McCracken County, also in western Kentucky at the confluence of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers. In 1925, Grey received his diploma from Paducah Tilghman High School. That same year, he was ordained to preach by the Immanuel Baptist Church, which began only three years earlier in 1922 as a mission of First Baptist Paducah. Immanuel is now located on Buckner Lane in Paducah.
In 1959, years after he had left Paducah, the mayor named Grey an honorary "Duke of Paducah". In 1929, he graduated from Baptist-affiliated Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. In 1932, he received the Master of Theology degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
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