Bottoms, Lawrence (Personal Name)

His Ecclesiastes speaks to ... c1979: t.p. (Lawrence Bottoms)

Revised ministerial directory of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., 1967: p.54-55 (Bottoms, Lawrence Wendell; b. 4/9/1908; ord. 1936 by RCA;rec. Louisville Pby. (PCUS) ; pastorate, Grace ch., Louisville, Ky.; DRE, Snedecor Syn.; 1st Nego Mod. of Louisville Pby.; Mod., Syn. of Kentucky)

African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bottoms, Lawrence Wendell; Presbyterian clergy, theologian; born 09 April 1908 in Selma, Alabama, United States; educated at Geneva College (1929-1931), then at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh (1932-1935); became pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky (1938-1949); was the first African American moderator of the Presbytery of Louisville and the first African American moderator of the Synod of Kentucky (1963-1964); became the first African American to serve as moderator of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church; served as president of the Christian Council of Metropolitan Atlanta (1980); received honorary doctor of divinity degrees from Oglethorpe University, the doctor of humane letters from Tarkio College, and the doctor of laws degree from Geneva College; died 01 September 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States)