Henry Randall Waite (

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, 16 December 1845 –

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, 8 May 1909) was a

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editor and clergyman.

Biography

He graduated from Hamilton College in 1868, and then was engaged in journalism until 1870. He then studied theology in the

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, where he edited the ''University Quarterly Review''. He was pastor of the American church in

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1871-74, on the staff of the

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''Journal'' 1875, editor of the ''International Review'' 1876-77, and until 1880 pastor of a

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in Pelham, New York. In 1891 he became acting pastor of a

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. Waite organized the National Reform League in 1876. He was president of the Political Science Association of New York 1876-77, special officer of the United States census 1880-83, editor of the ''Boston Citizen'' 1885-86, then editor of ''Civics'' in

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. In 1885 he founded the American Institute of Civics, of which he was president. He was the first to employ the term “civics” to designate those branches of science that pertain to the elevation of citizenship. He published ''The Motive of St. Paul's Life'' and ''Illiteracy and the

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Problem''.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Waite, Henry Randall 1845 births 1909 deaths American Presbyterian ministers American Congregationalist ministers American editors Hamilton College (New York) alumni 19th-century American clergy