biography
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| lived:
| (1902–49)
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| biography:
| Presbyterian clergyman, born in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, C Scotland, UK. Educated at the mining college there, he served in the navy before being called to the ministry. He graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, and served pastorates in the South before his appointment in 1937 to the historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. In 1948 he became chaplain to the US Senate. Much in demand as a speaker, he also wrote Mr Jones, Meet the Master (1949), and after his premature death was the subject of a film, A Man Called Peter, based on his wife's biography of him. |
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