biography
| name: |
Speer, Robert Elliott
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| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1947)
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| biography:
| Protestant missionary leader, born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA. The son of a Democratic politician, he decided on a missionary career during his second year at Princeton, became secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church two years after graduation, and continued as spokesman, chief fund-raiser, and publicist for church missions for nearly 50 years (1891–1937). He believed that Christianity would bring ‘progress and free government’ to all peoples, from the West to the East. |
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