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Biographical details on the Rev. Billy Graham

Biographical details on the Rev. Billy Graham | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this May 31, 2007 file photo, former Presidents, George H.W. Bush, left, Bill Clinton, second left, and Jimmy Carter, right, join Franklin Graham, second right, as they pose with Billy Graham, center, in front of the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C. Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, has died. Spokesman Mark DeMoss says Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home in North Carolina on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. He was 99. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

NAME — William Franklin “Billy” Graham Jr.

BIRTH — Nov. 7, 1918, near Charlotte, North Carolina

EDUCATION — Bachelor of theology, Florida Bible Institute, 1940; bachelor of arts in anthropology, Wheaton College, Ill., 1943; numerous honorary doctorates.

CAREER — Baptist pastor in Western Springs, Ill., 1943-45. Field representative with Youth for Christ, 1945-49. From 1947 on ran his own campaigns, sponsored after 1950 by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, becoming history’s most-travelled Christian evangelist and speaking in person to more than 210 million people in 185 countries and territories. Multi-media innovator and a key leader in numerous evangelical Protestant organizations and meetings.

Honours — The $1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (1982), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983), Congressional Gold Medal (1996), honorary British knighthood (2001).

WRITINGS — Countless sermons and speeches, daily newspaper columns, 32 books including a bestselling 1997 autobiography “Just As I Am.”

FAMILY — Married Ruth McCue Bell in 1943 (she died in 2007). Children: Virginia (“Gigi”), Anne, Ruth, William Franklin Graham III (“Franklin,” his father’s successor as B.G.E.A. leader), Nelson (“Ned”).

QUOTE — “My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.”

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