1. John Raleigh Mott was an American evangelist and long-serving leader of the Young Men's Christian Association and the World Student Christian Federation.
14 Facts About John Mott
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John Mott received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Protestant Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace.
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From 1895 until 1920 Mott was the General Secretary of the WSCF.
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John Mott helped found the World Student Christian Federation in 1895, the 1910 World Missionary Conference and the World Council of Churches in 1948.
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John Mott was born in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, New York, on May 25,1865, and his family moved to Postville, Iowa, in September of the same year.
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John Mott attended Upper Iowa University, where he studied history and was an award-winning student debater.
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John Mott transferred to Cornell University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1888.
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John Mott was influenced by Arthur Tappan Pierson one of the forces behind the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, which was founded in 1886.
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In 1910, John Mott, an American Methodist layperson, presided at the 1910 World Missionary Conference, which was an important milestone in the modern Protestant missions movement and some say the modern ecumenical movement.
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John Mott worked with Robert Hallowell Gardiner III to maintain relations with the Russian Orthodox Church and Archbishop Tikhon after the Russian Revolution.
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From 1920 until 1928, John Mott served as the WSCF Chairperson.
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John Mott's first wife was a teacher, Leila Ada White.
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John Mott died in 1955, in Orlando, Florida, aged 89 years.
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John Mott's papers are held at the Yale Divinity School Library.