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James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
Joseph Smith
founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and prophet (1805–1844)
John Wesley
founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
Gregory of Nyssa
bishop of Nyssa
William Cowper
English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)

Charles Spurgeon
British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist (1834-1892)

John Newton
Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)

Jane Pierce
First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857
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Onesimus
Onesimus (, meaning "useful") was a Christian mentioned in the New Testament. He was a slave to Philemon, a Christian, and is the subject of Paul's Epistle to Philemon.

Hannah More
English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)
Theodore Parker
American transcendentalist, abolitionist and reforming minister (1810-1860)
Charles Grandison Finney
American religious leader, writer and educator (1792–1875)
Macrina the Younger
4th-century Roman nun
Philothei of Athens
Greek saint
Lyman Beecher
American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder (1775–1863)
Prudence Crandall
Civil rights pioneer, educator, temperance advocate, Connecticut's official State Heroine (1803-1890)
Adin Ballou
American minister (1803–1890)
Eustathius of Sebaste
Armenian priest (0300-0377)

Theodore Dwight Weld
American abolitionist (1803–1895)
Beilby Porteus
Bishop of Chester; Bishop of London (1731-1809)
Thomas Starr King
American minister (1824-1864)
Uriah Smith
American Seventh-day Adventist minister (1832–1903)
John Byington
American Seventh-day Adventist minister (1798–1887)

James Ramsay
Scottish Anglican priest and abolitionist
Samuel Longfellow
American clergyman