Arthur Judson Brown - Career Chronology

Career Chronology

• 1887: Moderator of the Synod of Chicago.
• 1890: Chairman of the Portland City Board of Charities; drafts law organizing Oregon's first State Board of Charities and Corrections
• 1895-1929: serves as Administrative Secretary, later General Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.
• 1896: first attends the Foreign Mission Conference of North America; later becomes first Chairman of the Committee of Reference and Counsel (16 years), and Chairman of the Emergency Committee on Support of Missionary Societies.
• 1898-1900: Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York--member Executive Committee; Chairman—Hospitality Committee.
• 1901-1902: world trip to Asian missions.
• 1909: made world trip.
• 1910: World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland--member Executive Committee; Chairman, American Section; member of Continuation Committee for 16 years.
• 1910: Commission of the Federal Council of Churches on Relief for Protestant Churches in France and Belgium-Chairman; resumes following World War I.
• 1913: awarded D.D., Yale University.
• 1913-1963: Council on Religion and International Affairs (formerly The Church Peace Union)--Charter Trustee; member Executive and Finance Committees; treasurer since 1936.
• 1914: British and Foreign Bible Society--Honorary Foreign Member.1914: World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through Religion-member Executive Committee.
• 1914-1937: Peking Union Medical College, China—trustee; member Executive Committee; post 1937—member Advisory Committee.
• 1915: Near East Relief-trustee.
• 1915-1918: Moral Aims of World War I--member Executive Committee.
• 1915-1919: National Committee on Relief of Children in Belgium--member Organizing and Executive Committees.
• 1915-1963: Hall of Fame for Great Americans—elector.
• 1917: Foreign Missions Conference of North America-Chairman. League of Nations Non-Partisan Association—Honorary Vice-President.
• 1918-1940: Hungary-American Society—Chairman of Executive Committee, Vice President; 1920- Chairman of Deputation to Hungary.
• 1919: Committee on Relief for Protestant Churches in Devastated Regions in Europe in World War I.
• 1920-1937: American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities—Chairman; 1937-Honorary Chairman.
• 1920: Life and Work Movement—member of delegation sent by Federal Council of Churches of U.S. for its delegation 1920: Greek Decoration—Officer of the Royal Order of George I. Emergency Committee for Relief of Refugees in Greece--Chairman.
• 1921: International Missionary Council—organizer.
• 1921: Siamese Decoration—Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant.
• 1924: National Committee on American-Japanese Relations—member.
• 1925: Conference of Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian System, Cardiff, Wales—Committee member and speaker.
• 1925: Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work, Stockholm, Sweden-Joint President; Chairman-American Section; helps establish "Life and Work". headquarters at Geneva in 1928; Chairman-Continuation Committee until 1936.
• 1927: World Conference on Faith and Order, Lausanne, Switzerland--delegate; American-Palestine Committee--member.
• 1930: editor the Missionary Review of the World for one year.
• 1931: Save The Children Federation--first President; 1931-1936-Honorary President; member Executive Committee.
• 1933-1937: International World Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches-Vice-President: President-American Section.
• 1937: Eugene Field Society (National Literary Association)-honorary membership
• 1960: Hall of Fame for Great Americans—citation.

As noted, Brown was appointed as a life elector for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, serving from 1915–1963, a period of 48 years.