GILBERT HAVEN


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Gilbert Haven

The duty of the church is to march to the ballot box, an army of Christ, with the banners of the cross, and deposit, as she can, a million votes for her true representative …
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The active involvement of organized religion in partisan politics is nothing new. The Methodist church not only actively campaigned for Abraham Lincoln, but viewed him as the selection of God.

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Gilbert Haven
  • Born: September 19, 1821
  • Died: January 3, 1880
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  • Profession: Clergyman
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Gilbert Haven was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872. He was consecrated a bishop on May 24, 1872 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. He was an early benefactor of Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), visualizing it as a university of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen (former African American slaves). He succeeded Bishop Davis Wasgatt Clark (for whom Clark College was named) as the President of the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.