Lee Rutland Scarborough
1870-1945
Baptist minister and educator. L.R. Scarborough was born in
Colfax, Louisiana, on July 4, 1870. His father was a farmer
and preacher. Lee, one of five children in the family, was
converted to Christ at the age of 17 at the First Baptist
Church in Waco, Texas, and was ordained as a Baptist minister
by the First Baptist Church of Abilene, Texas, in 1896. After
graduating from Baylor University in 1892, he taught at that
same institution for the next two years. He then entered Yale
University, where he received an additional degree in 1896.
Upon completion of his seminary work at Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1900,
Scarborough pastored in Texas for the next eight years. In
1908 he went to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth, Texas, as a professor in the school of theology,
where he served until elected president of the seminary in
1915. He served in that capacity for the next 27 years until
he retired in 1942.
During this period he also served as president of the
Baptist General Convention of Texas (1929-31), vice president
of the Southern Baptist Convention (1934-35), president of
the Southern Baptist Convention (1938-41), and vice president
of the Baptist World Alliance (1940-41). Dr. Scarborough was
the author of 14 books, as well as a great preacher and soul-
winner. He died in Amarillo, Texas, on April 10, 1945.
Ruckman '66

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