{"id":1294,"date":"2014-09-02T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:46:19","slug":"harrington-bob-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"HARRINGTON, BOB, 1927-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evangelist; motivational speaker. Born&#8211; September 2, 1927, Sweetwater. Parents&#8211; Robert and Louise (Shoultz) Harrington. Married&#8211; Joyce Compton. Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211;Zonnya. Married Rebecca Harris Birdwell, December 5, 1990.\u00a0Education&#8211; Marion Military Institute; Auburn University; graduate of University of Alabama; study at New Orleans Baptist Seminary, 1961. Played football at both Auburn and Alabama. Served in U.S. Navy; worked in photography business in Tuscaloosa and insurance business in Mobile and Butler. In 1958, experienced a religious conversion in 1958\u00a0and immediately began preaching; ordained to Baptist ministry, 1961. Assistant pastor at the First Baptist Church of New Orleans. Preached in a chapel on Bourbon Street; became known as &#8220;The Chaplain of Bourbon Street.&#8221; Joined Eddie Martin Evangelistic Team; later, conducted independent evangelistic campaigns and a television ministry.\u00a0 Successful motivational speaker in the 1980&#8217;s and 199o&#8217;s. Died July 4, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chaplain of Bourbon Street; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bring Them In. Nashville; Broadman, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Go-Go Preacher.\u00a0 London:\u00a0 Lakeland, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s Super Salesman.\u00a0 Nashville, Broadman, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Just Flush It! Mansfield, TX:\u00a0 Chaplain, Inc., 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Motivating Men for the Master.\u00a0 Nashville: Broadman, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brother Bob:\u00a0 The Wit and Wisdom of the Famous Chaplain of Bourbon Street.\u00a0 Nashville:\u00a0 Impact Books, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The Chaplain of Bourbon Street.\u00a0 Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The Power of Balanced Living.\u00a0 Clearwater, FL:\u00a0 Harrington, 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Evangelist; motivational speaker. Born&#8211; September 2, 1927, Sweetwater. Parents&#8211; Robert and Louise (Shoultz) Harrington. Married&#8211; Joyce Compton. Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211;Zonnya. Married Rebecca Harris Birdwell, December 5, 1990.\u00a0Education&#8211; Marion Military Institute; Auburn University; graduate of University of Alabama; study at New Orleans Baptist Seminary, 1961. Played football at both Auburn and Alabama. Served in U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7998,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/7998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}