1950's Religion | People in the News

In February 1950 Dr. Bernard Beskamp was installed as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. His predecessor, Dr. James Shera Montgomery, served in the post for almost thirty years.

On 10 September 1958 Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A, issued a statement saying that desegregation in the South should be enforced "with troops and tanks if necessary."

On 3 March 1950 Rev. Dr. Osmond H. Brown was appointed honorary canon of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was the first black to hold that position.

In January 1953 President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower selected National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., as his presidential place of worship. National Presbyterian was pastored by Dr. Edward L. R. Elson.

In January 1950 Donald D. Foster, a San Francisco businessman and state of California tax official,...