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John Raleigh Mott (
May 25,
1865 –
January 31,
1955) was a long-serving leader of the
YMCA and the
World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). He received the
Nobel Peace Prize in
1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Protestant
Christian student organizations that worked to promote
peace.
From 1895 until 1920 Mott was the General Secretary of the WSCF.
In
1910, Mott, an
American Methodist layperson, presided at the
1910 World Missionary Conference, which launched both the modern
Protestant missions movement and some say the modern
ecumenical movement. From 1920 until 1928 he was the Chairperson of the WSCF. For his labors in both missions and ecumenism, as well as for peace, some historians consider him to be "the most widely traveled and universally trusted Christian leader of his time" (Cracknell & White, 243). Intimately involved in the formation of the
World Council of Churches in 1948, that body elected him as a life-long honorary President. His best-known book,
The Evangelization of the World in this Generation, became a missionary slogan in the early 20th century (Cracknell & White, 233).
Mott was born in
Livingston Manor, New York,
Sullivan County, New York on May 25, 1865, and his family moved to
Postville, Iowa in September of the same year. He attended
Upper Iowa University, where he studied history and was an award-winning student debater. He transferred to
Cornell University, where he received his
bachelor's degree in
1888. Mott married Leila Ada White in
1891 and had two sons and two daughters.
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