Samuel Courts Redford (September 4, 1898 – April 1977), was a Southern Baptist minister, professor, university president, and executive secretary-treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board from 1954 to 1964 (now the

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). Having surrendered to preach at the age of 12, he later graduated from

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. He pastored churches, later served on the faculty of his alma mater, then in 1930 assumed the presidency of

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Family

Courts Redford married Helen Ruth Ford and together they had nine children: Virginia, Elizabeth, John, Rosemary, David, Sylvia, Bill, Courts Jr., Jeanette and Caroline.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, (1920),

Master's Degree, (1927),

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, Ft. Worth, TX Honorary Doctorate,

Honorary Doctorate,

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Redford, Courts 1898 births 1977 deaths Southwest Baptist University faculty Oklahoma Baptist University alumni Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni People from Bolivar, Missouri