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Author. Bill Johnson (born July 18, 1951) is the senior leader of Bethel Church, a charismatic megachurch in Redding, California. [3] [4] The congregation has grown in membership from 2,000 when he joined in 1996, [5] to over 11,000 in 2019. [6] Johnson has taken public conservative positions on same-sex marriage, abortion, open borders, and ...
On December 3, 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. Early U.S. expansion began in the south part of the state and quickly spread northward, driving out the native residents. In 1832, some Native American "Indians" returned from Iowa but were driven out in the Black Hawk War, fought by militia.
Bill Gothard. William W. Gothard Jr. (born November 2, 1934) is an American Christian minister, speaker, and writer, and the founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), an independent fundamentalist Christian organization. [1] His conservative teachings encourage Bible memorization, large families, homeschooling, aversion to debt ...
Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina. For the fall 2023 semester, the university enrolled a total of 22,875 undergraduate students and 5,872 graduate students, and the student/faculty ratio was 15:1. Clemson's 1,400-acre (570 ha) campus is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
John Caldwell Calhoun ( / kælˈhuːn /; [1] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
The institution's first president was Henry Aubrey Strode, appointed in 1890, [2] and its 15th and current is James P. Clements, who assumed office in 2013. [a] [3] All of Clemson's presidents have been white men. Robert Cook Edwards had the longest tenure at 21 years, [4] and Walter T. Cox Jr. had the shortest at eight months. [5]
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On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university. The university was founded in 1889, and three buildings from the initial construction still exist today: Hardin Hall (built in 1890), Main Building (later renamed Tillman Hall) (1894), and Godfrey Hall (1898). Other periods of ...