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Benjamin Tucker Tanner (December 25, – January 14, ) was an American clergyman and editor.
Benjamin Tucker Tanner
African Methodist Episcopal minister (1835–1923)
Benjamin Tucker Tanner (December 25, 1835 – January 14, 1923) was an American clergyman and editor.
He served as a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1886, and founded The Christian Recorder, an influential African American Methodist newspaper.
He was born to Hugh and Isabella Tanner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He studied for five years at Avery College, paying his expenses by working as a barber.[1] As a student in Pittsburgh, his classmates included Jeremiah A. Brown, Thomas Morris Chester, and James T. Bradford.[2]
He then studied for three years at Western Theological Seminary (now Pittsburgh Theological Seminary).
At twenty five he was appointed to Sacramento by Bishop Daniel A. Payne, but he could not afford to go, so he moved to Washington, D. C. where he organized a Sunday School for freed slaves in the Navy Yard with the permission of Admiral Jo
