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Dr. John Albert Broadus

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States
Death: March 16, 1895 (68)
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
Place of Burial: 701 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 40204, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Maj. Edmund Broaddus and S. Nancy Broadus
Husband of Maria Carter Broadus and Charlotte Eleanor Broadus
Father of Eliza Somerville Broadus; Anna Harrison Abraham; Maria Louise Broadus; John Albert Broadus; Robertson and 4 others
Brother of Martha A. Broadus; James Madison Broadus and Caroline M. Broadus

Occupation: Preacher
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About Dr. John Albert Broadus

Dr. John Albert Broadus

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Dr. Broadus was an American Baptist pastor and President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Born in 1827 in Culpeper County, Virginia, Broadus was educated at home and at a private school. He taught in a small school before completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Broadus was ordained in 1850 and became pastor of the Baptist church in Charlottesville. He delivered a lecture at the University of Virginia in memorial to Professor Gessner Harrison in 1873. A decade later, in 1883, he delivered an address on the Confederate cause at Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery. That was an important part of reunion, as he argued that both sides were partly correct in their positions that led to war.

In 1859, Broadus became professor of New Testament interpretation and homiletics at the new Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. During the American Civil War, he served as a Confederate chaplain to Robert E. Lee's army in Northern Virginia. In 1888, he became Southern Seminary's second president.

In 1889, Broadus delivered the Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School. Broadus died in 1895.

Broadus married Maria Carter Harrison on Nov. 14, 1849. She died Oct. 21, 1857. He remarried, to Charlotte Eleanor Sinclair (1836–1913) on January 4, 1859.

Charles Spurgeon called Broadus the "greatest of living preachers."[1] Church historian Albert Henry Newman called Broadus "perhaps the greatest preacher the Baptists have produced."[1]

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January 24, 1827
Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States
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January 10, 1860
1100 Lee Avenue, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA, 70501, United States
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