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Rev. George Washington Truett
1867 - 1944

George Washington Truett was born on a farm in Hayesville, N.C. on May 6, 1867. He was the seventh child of Charles Levi Truett and Mary Rebecca Kimsey. He attended the Hayesville Academy from 1875 to 1885. He worshiped at the Baptist Church in Hayesville, when in 1886 he had a conversion experience.
George W. Truett was a teacher in the one-room Crooked Creek public school in Towns County, Georgia. To pay his tuition to law school, he opened a subscription school in Haiwassee, Georgia. Following many of his family members, he moved to Whitewright, Texas in 1889. There he joined the Baptist Church and attended Grayson College. The church congregation elected him Sunday School Superintendent and would ask him to fill the pulpit when the pastor was called away. In 1890, he was ordained to the Baptist ministry in the Whitewright Baptist Church. The first sermon he preached was at the First Baptist Church in Sherman, Texas.

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	1890	became financial secretary of Baylor University
	1893	enrolled as a freshman at Baylor University; paid tuition by serving as pastor of the East Waco Baptist Church
	1897	received his bachelor's degree from Baylor University

On June 28, 1894, George married Josephine Jenkins, a fellow student at Baylor University. She was born on February 11, 1872, daughter of Warwick Hoxey Jenkins and Jessie Speight.

CHILDREN
OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON TRUETT & JOSEPHINE JENKINS

	Jessie Truett	1897 - 1961
	Mary Truett	1904 - 1981
	Annie Sallee Truett	1907 - 1982

PASTORAL CAREER

	1897-1944	accepted position of pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas
	1918	appointed as one of 20 preachers sent by President Woodrow Wilson to serve a 6 month tour, preaching to Allied forces
	1902-1938	annual summer camp meetings for cowboys in Davis Mountains of West Texas
	1920	"Baptists & Religious Liberty" sermon delivered on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C.
	1927-1929	president of the Southern Baptist Convention
	1934	British Baptists chose him to deliver principal address at Spurgeon Centenary; Royal Albert Hall; London
	1934-1939	president of the Baptist World Alliance
	1935-1936	toured the Baptist missions of the Far East

Read this about him.

In 1957, Jory was cast in the role of the Southern Baptist pastor George Washington Truett of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, in the episode "Lone Star Preacher" of the syndicated religion anthology series Crossroads.

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