1835-12-25 Benjamin Tucker Tanner was born on this date in 1835. He was a Black minister and bishop. He was born in Pittsburgh. After studying at Avery Institute and Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, PA, he officiated at the 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. He organized the first school for freedmen in the United States navy yard, by permission of an Admiral Dahlgren. At the end of 18, months he returned to his own church, the African Methodist Episcopal, entering the Baltimore conference in April 1862. He worked as a missionary in Alexandria, where he organized the first society of his church in Virginia. He was stationed in 1863 in Georgetown, D.C., in 1864 in nearby Frederick, MD, and in 1866, in Baltimore. Tanner was reassigned to organize a proposed conference school in Frederick, and take charge of the schools of the Freedmens bureau in Frederick County. He was elected secretary of the General Conference of 1868, and was chosen editor of the Christian Recorder in 1872, 1876, and 1880. In 1884, he was elected managing editor of a new church publication, the A.M.E. Church Review. Tanner received the degree of A.N. from Avery College in 1870 and that of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) from Wilberforce University in 1878. On May 19, 1888, Tanner was elected a bishop. Dr. Tanner wrote Paul versus Pius Ninth (Baltimore, 1865); Apology for African Methodism (1867); The Negros Origin:Is the Negro Cursed? (Philadelphia, 1869); Outline of the History and Government of the A.M.E. Church (1883); and prose and poetry for periodicals. Benjamin Tucker Tanner died in 1923. Reference: An Encyclopedia of African American Christian Heritage by Marvin Andrew McMickle Judson Press, Copyright 2002 ISBN 0-817014-02-0
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