Triennial Convention - Famous Triennial Baptists

Famous Triennial Baptists

  • John Newton Brown, early 19th century church reformer
  • James Boorman Colgate
  • Samuel Colgate, Religious leader and President of the Colgate Company
  • William Colgate, Founder of the Colgate Company
  • Charles Evans Hughes, early 20th century Republican leader, first president of the Northern Baptist Convention in 1907
  • William Bullein Johnson, Triennial Convention President in 1841, he became a Southern Baptist in 1845
  • Adoniram Judson, early 19th century missionary to Burma
  • Ann Hasseltine Judson, early 19th century missionary to Burma
  • Francis Wayland, educator and pastor, President of Brown University and abolitionist

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