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Herschel H. Hobbs

June 16, 2021: Shawnee News Star: OBU presents Hobbs Award to Dr. David Manner
Oklahoma Baptist University presented the Herschel H. Hobbs Award for Distinguished Denominational Service to Dr. David Manner during the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, June 14.

Dec 2, 1995: New York Times: Herschel H. Hobbs, 88, Southern Baptist Leader
Dr. Herschel Harold Hobbs, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and chairman of the committee that wrote the latest statement of church doctrine, died on Tuesday at Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was 88 and lived in Oklahoma City.

​Herschel Hobbs was born at Talladega Springs, Ala. He made his profession of faith at 11, was baptized in a local creek and answered the call to preach at 19. He graduated from Howard College, now Samford University, in Birmingham, Ala., received a master's in theology from Southern Seminary and earned a Ph.D. in New Testament interpretation at Southern Seminary in 1938. Ordained in 1929 in Birmingham, he held several other pulpits before being named pastor of the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma.