First Baptist Church (Knoxville, Tennessee) - Pastors

Pastors

Twenty-seven men have served as pastor of First Baptist Church. In the early years pastors were called for just one year. Some served as short as three months. There were periods when the church had no pastor. The longest tenures were Dr. F.F. Brown (25 years) and Dr. Charles A. Trentham (21 years). Daniel William Phillips (1864) was never actually elected pastor. He was a missionary sent by the Home Mission Society to help reorganize First Baptist Church after the Civil War.

1843 Joseph A. Bullard

1844-49 Homer Sears

1852-58 Matthew Hillsman

1858 J.T. Wallace

1859-60 George Washington Griffin

1861 J.V. Iddins

1862-63 Lucian B. Woolfolk

1864 Daniel William Phillips

1866-67 Stephen H. Smith

1868-69 D.M. Breaker

1869 Frank C. Johnson

1870-73 Joseph L. Lloyd

1873-78 Jonathan Fleming Bingham Mays

1879-80 George Boardman Eager

1880-83 Charleton Hines Strickland

1883-88 Eugene A. Taylor

1889-93 Carter Helm Jones

1893-99 Robert R. Acree

1899-04 Montraville Walker Egerton

1905-06 W.M. Harris

1907-14 Joseph Judson Taylor

1915-20 Leonard Gaston Broughton

1921-46 Frederick Fernando Brown

1946-52 Henry J. Stokes, Jr.

1953-74 Charles A. Trentham

1975-77 Jesse C. Fletcher

1978-92 A. Douglas Watterson

1993-2002 David William Hull

2004–Present William D. Shiell