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William Franklin Graham, Jr. (born November 7, 1918), commonly known as Billy Graham, is an American Protestant Christian evangelist. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple U.S. presidents and was number 7 on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. more...

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He is one of the most prominent members of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Biography

Early life and family

Born on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, Billy Graham was raised in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church by his parents, Frank Graham and Morrow Coffey Graham, and changed denominations to Southern Baptist in 1934 during a Christian revival meeting, conducted by Mordecai Ham. Graham was ordained a Southern Baptist minister in 1939.

After graduating from Sharon High School in May 1936, Graham attended Bob Jones College (now Bob Jones University), then located in Cleveland, Tennessee, but found it to be extremely sectarian so he transferred to the Florida Bible Institute, now Trinity College of Florida, in 1937 and graduated from Wheaton College in 1943. It was during his time at Wheaton that Graham decided to take the Bible as the infallible word of God. Henrietta Mears of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood was instrumental in helping Graham wrestle with the issue, which was settled at Forest Home Christian camp (now called Forest Home Ministries) southeast of the Big Bear area in Southern California. A simple memorial there still marks the site of Graham's decision.

In 1943, Graham married Ruth Graham, whose parents were Presbyterian missionaries in China, her father, L. Nelson Bell, a general surgeon. Today, Graham and his wife have three daughters (including Anne Graham Lotz, who runs AnGeL ministries), two sons (including Franklin Graham, who now administers his organization), 19 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren. Although Graham is Southern Baptist he has embraced the doctrine of infant baptism which is accepted by the majority of Christians (but not Southern Baptist) and all of Graham's children were baptized as infants.

Ministry

Graham joined Youth for Christ after graduating from Wheaton. He traveled throughout the United States and Europe as an evangelist. Graham scheduled a series of missions in Los Angeles in 1949. The missions went on for 8 weeks after being originally scheduled for only 3 weeks. This happened on many other of his early missions. He had missions in London which lasted 12 weeks, and a New York City mission in Madison Square Garden in 1957 which ran nightly for 16 weeks.

He also led a very successful crusade (the first of several) in Australia in 1959. This crusade was regarded as being the most effective preaching of the gospel in Australian history and its effects led to protestantism growing consistently over the next 15 years and numerous new churches being founded. Many home Bible groups that were formed lasted 35 years or more.