{"id":1912,"date":"2012-10-30T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2012-10-30T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:04:16","slug":"sampey-john-richard-1863-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"SAMPEY, JOHN RICHARD, 1863-1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman, educator, seminary president.  Born&#8211;  Sept. 27, 1863, at Fort  Deposit, Ala.  Parents&#8211;  James L. and Louisa Zilpha (Cochran) Sampey.  Married&#8211;  Annie Renfroe, Sept. 16, 1886 (died 1925); Children&#8211;five. Married Ellen Wood, 1926.\u00a0\u00a0 Education&#8211;  Howard College, A.B., 1882; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1885.\u00a0\u00a0Ordained a Baptist clergyman, 1885.\u00a0Taught at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1885-1943, librarian 1889-1929, and president 1929-1942.\u00a0\u00a0Served as pastor of several churches; conducted missionary tours to Japan, Brazil, and China.\u00a0\u00a0President Southern Baptist Convention 1935-1938; Member International Sunday School Lesson Commission 1895-1942 (chair, 1921);\u00a0appointed in 1937\u00a0as Southern Baptist Representative to the Conference on Life and Work in Oxford,\u00a0and the Conference on Faith and Order in Edinburgh.\u00a0Addressed the Baptist World Alliance, 1939.\u00a0 President Emeritus, SBTS, 1942; awarded honorary degrees by Howard College (1901), Baylor University (1920), and Washington and Lee (1887).\u00a0 Died August 18, 1946.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2; National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 36.; Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, vol. 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ethical Teachings of Jesus.\u00a0 1909.<\/p>\n<p>The Heart of the Old Testament.  Nashville;  Sunday School Board, Southern                      Baptist Convention, 1909.<\/p>\n<p>The International Lesson System.  New York;  Fleming H. Revell, 1911.<\/p>\n<p>Memoirs of John R. Sampey.  Nashville;  Broadman, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>The Proper Attitude of Young Ministers toward Issues of the Day.  Louisville, Ky.;  C. T.      Dearing, 1888.<\/p>\n<p>Review and Expositor.  Louisville, Ky.;  Southern Baptist Theological Soc., 1904.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Baptist Theological Seminary;  the First Thirty Years, 1859-1889.  Baltimore;       Wharton, Baron &amp; Co., 1890.<\/p>\n<p>Syllabus for Old Testament Study.  Louisville, Ky.;  C. T. Dearing, 1903.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Vital Messages.  Nashville;  Broadman, 1946.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of John R. Sampey are held by the James P. Boyce Centennial Library at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clergyman, educator, seminary president. Born&#8211; Sept. 27, 1863, at Fort Deposit, Ala. Parents&#8211; James L. and Louisa Zilpha (Cochran) Sampey. Married&#8211; Annie Renfroe, Sept. 16, 1886 (died 1925); Children&#8211;five. Married Ellen Wood, 1926.\u00a0\u00a0 Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1882; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1885.\u00a0\u00a0Ordained a Baptist clergyman, 1885.\u00a0Taught at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1885-1943, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}