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Famous and Infamous Disciples

Writer's picture: Rev. Kevin K. AdamsRev. Kevin K. Adams

Updated: Jan 26


Disciples History Moment

For January 19, 2025


Disciples (Stone-Campbell Movement) have had their share of famous and not-so-famous (and downright bad) people. None of us as humans are one dimensional—all good or all bad. So the Disciples have had their share of famous and not–so-famous members and some who are just familiar names.

 

I have named some of the “famous” Disciples over the course of this past year. Some of them are:

  • Restoration Movement Leaders: Alexander & Thomas Campbell, Barton Stone, and Walter Scott

  • Presidents: James Garfield, Ronald Reagan, and Lyndon Johnson

  • Janis Joplin (in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

 

Some others are:

  • Actors: Francis McDormand (who won and Oscar as the cop lady in the movie “Fargo”). Also, the couple Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.

  • Millard Fuller, the founder and former president of Habitat for Humanity International.

  • Colonel Sanders (as in Kentucky Fried Chicken)

  • General Lew Wallace, Union General and author of Ben-Hur

  • Andy Beshear, current Governor of Kentucky

  • General Omar Bradley, one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General in the United States Army. He was the last surviving five-star commissioned officer of the United States. He was the first officer assigned to the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

  • Clarence M. Kelley, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • William Steele Sessions, served as a judge and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • “Boss” Hoover, founder of the Hoover vacuum company

  • Garfield Todd, New Zeland missionary who became the Prime Minister of South Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe)

  • Ben Hogan, golfer

 

Some of the the infamous Disciples are:

  • Sally Rand, 1930's burlesque dancer and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance

  • Jim Jones, cult leader of the Jonestown Massacre.

  • John Dillinger, famous mob gangster

  • Edgar Cayce, psychic, healer, photographer, and Sunday school teacher. You see his face almost every year at the check-out lines on the cover of supermarket tabloids, with his supposed top predictions for the year.

  • Carry Nation, the hatchet wielding anti-alcohol temperance lady from the early 1900's. (You probably remember her from American History classes.)


Rev. Kevin K. Adams

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