Leadership Hall of Fame

...for those who have demonstrated particularly outstanding
courage and leadership...

1999

Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States of America, 1861-65

Pope John XXIII
Head of the Roman Catholic Church, 1958-63

Ronald Reagan
President of the United States of America, 1981-89

Theodore Roosevelt
Adventurer; Activist;
President of the United States of America, 1901-09

2000

Alexander Hamilton
Writer; Presidential Advisor;
Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America, 1789-1795

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader; Pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL,
1954-1960; Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, 1960-1968

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President of the United States of America, 1933-1945

George Washington
Military Leader of American Revolution; President of the Constitutional
Convention; President of the United States of America, 1789-1797

2001

no inductees

2002

Bishop Francis Asbury
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1785-1816

Rudolph W. Giuliani
Mayor of New York City, 1994-2001

Thomas Jefferson
Writer; Architect; Secretary of State of the United States of
America, 1790-1793; President of the United States of America, 1801-1809

Rev. John Wesley
Evangelist; Theologian; Writer;
Founder and Leader of the Methodist Movement, 1738-1791

2003

Bishop Jacob Albright
co-founder and Bishop of the Evangelical Association 1807-1808

Bishop Thomas Coke
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1784-1814,
"the Father of Methodist Missions"

Dorothy Day
founder & leader of the Catholic Worker Movement, 1933-1980

Bishop Philip William Otterbein
co-founder and Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 1800-1813

2004

Bishop Martin Boehm
co-founder and Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 1800-1812

General William Booth
founder & director of the Salvation Army, 1865-1912

John R. Mott
leader of YMCA, 1888-1942; presiding officer of the World Missionary Conference
in Edinburgh, 1910; honorary president of first World Council of Churches, 1948;
"the Father of the Modern Ecumenical movement and the Modern Missions movement"

Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist,
"Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"

2005

Bishop Richard Allen
founding bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1816-1831

Bishop Ambrose of Milan
Bishop of Milan in Italy, 374-397

Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1940-1945, 1951-1955

Pope John Paul II
Head of the Roman Catholic Church, 1978-2005

2006

John Adams
American Revolutionary Leader;
President of the United States of America, 1797-1801

John the Merciful
Patriarch of Alexandria, 610-619

Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1979-1990

Bishop Richard Whatcoat
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1800-1806

2007

Columba of Iona
missionary monk to Scotland, 563-597

Mohandas K. Gandhi
civil rights activist in South Africa, 1893–1914;
leader of the Indian Independence Movement, 1916-1945

Bishop William McKendree
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1808-1835

Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
Pastor of several churches in Massachusetts, 1877-1885;
first woman to be ordained clergy in the Methodist Protestant Church, 1880;
Civil Rights Leader, 1885-1919

2008

Bishop Christian Newcomer
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1813-1830

John Boyd Orr
Activist; Director of Rowett Research Institute, 1914-1945

Robert Raikes
Activist; "Father of the Sunday School movement"

Lech Walesa
Chairman of Solidarity union in Poland, 1980-1990;
President of Poland, 1990-1995

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