LCMS Presidential Election and First Term
At the LCMS' 2001 convention in St. Louis, Kieschnick was elected to his first three-year term as president of the church, which has 2.6 million members. He won by 18 votes out of 1,182 total votes in the fourth round of balloting, defeating four other candidates. One of his leading Confessional Lutheran opponents, Daniel Preus, went on to win the position of First Vice President.
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