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GA HR1285
Resolution
Status
Passed
2/4/2016
Primary Sponsor
Marie Metze
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AI Summary
- Recognizes the 122nd Founders' Observance of Turner Theological Seminary and designates February 9, 2016, as Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Day in the State of Georgia
- Honors Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (born 1834), a resident bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Georgia who served in the Constitutional Convention that produced the Georgia Constitution of 1877 and was elected to represent Macon in 1878
- Turner Theological Seminary began as a department of Morris Brown College in 1894, was formally approved in 1900, and became a founding constituent of the Interdenominational Theological Center in 1958
- The seminary received its own charter and separate Board of Trustees in 1975 and is led by President-Dean Dr. John F. Green
- Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to provide an appropriate copy of the resolution to Turner Theological Seminary
Legislative Description
Turner Theological Seminary; recognize; Bishop Henry McNeal Turner; honor
Last Action
House Read and Adopted
2/4/2016
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