12 Facts About Rex Humbard

Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard was an American television evangelist whose Cathedral of Tomorrow show was aired on over 600 stations at the peak of its popularity.

Rex Humbard began attending church revivals all across the country and began to know God as a child, while withstanding the order from his father in learning how to play guitar while in church.

Rex Humbard was the first evangelist to have a weekly nationwide television program in the United States, running from 1952 to 1983, although his first television broadcast was in 1949.

Rex Humbard officiated at Elvis Presley's funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Rex Humbard's ministry.

Rex Humbard's ministry ran into financial problems in the early 1970s.

Rex Humbard said that the SEC did not allow him to count expected bequests from wills as assets, that the ministry never missed an interest payment, and that the investors were not worried about losing their money.

Rex Humbard began to build a rotating-tower restaurant at his Cathedral of Tomorrow complex in Cuyahoga Falls, which was slated to hold a transmission tower for his planned local TV station on Channel 55, WCOT.

Rex Humbard wrote two autobiographies, Miracles in My Life and, in 2006, The Soul Winning Century, The Rex Humbard Family Legacy.

Rex Humbard was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1993 by Ohio Governor George Voinovich after having been previously inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1991.

Rex Humbard died on September 21,2007, in Atlantis, Florida, of congestive heart failure, following hospitalization, at the age of 88.

Rex Humbard was survived by his wife, Maude Aimee, and four children.

Rex Humbard is buried at Rose Hill Burial Park in Fairlawn, Ohio.