BIO:Lee Rutland Scarborough

1870-1945
Baptist minister and educator. L.R. Scarborough was born in 
Colfax, Louisiana, on July 4, 1870. His father was a farmer 
and preacher. Lee, one of five children in the family, was 
converted to Christ at the age of 17 at the First Baptist 
Church in Waco, Texas, and was ordained as a Baptist minister 
by the First Baptist Church of Abilene, Texas, in 1896. After 
graduating from Baylor University in 1892, he taught at that 
same institution for the next two years. He then entered Yale 
University, where he received an additional degree in 1896. 
Upon completion of his seminary work at Southern Baptist 
Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1900, 
Scarborough pastored in Texas for the next eight years. In 
1908 he went to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 
Fort Worth, Texas, as a professor in the school of theology, 
where he served until elected president of the seminary in 
1915. He served in that capacity for the next 27 years until 
he retired in 1942.
        During this period he also served as president of the 
Baptist General Convention of Texas (1929-31), vice president 
of the Southern Baptist Convention (1934-35), president of 
the Southern Baptist Convention (1938-41), and vice president 
of the Baptist World Alliance (1940-41). Dr. Scarborough was 
the author of 14 books, as well as a great preacher and soul-
winner. He died in Amarillo, Texas, on April 10, 1945.

Ruckman '66
