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    Joseph Franklin Rutherford (November 8, 1869 – January 8, 1942), also known as Judge Rutherford, was an American religious leader and the second president...
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  • Joseph Rutherford may refer to: Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869–1942), second president of Watch Tower Society corporation Joe Rutherford (1920–1994)...
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    groups breaking away, with Joseph Franklin Rutherford retaining control of the Watch Tower Society and its properties. Rutherford made significant organizational...
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    a winter home and executive office for Watch Tower president Joseph Franklin Rutherford. The house was sold to a private owner in 1948. In 1918, Watch...
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    counsel Joseph Franklin Rutherford to determine whether the Watch Tower Society's headquarters could be moved to Brooklyn, New York. Rutherford reported...
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  • movement—and successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Nathan Homer Knorr. Since 1976, all doctrinal decisions have...
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    election of Joseph Franklin Rutherford as president of the Watch Tower Society two months after Russell's death. The schism began with Rutherford's controversial...
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  • movement, and of successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford (from 1917 to 1942) and Nathan Homer Knorr (from 1942 to 1977)...
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  • the election of legal counsel Joseph Franklin Rutherford as his successor. An acrimonious battle ensued between Rutherford and four of the society's seven...
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  • faith in the 1920s. It is, for instance, the title of an essay by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract...
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    Alexander Berkman, former Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society president Joseph Franklin Rutherford (whose conviction was overturned on appeal), communists Julius...
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    suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. Rutherford's reasoning was that these...
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    1955). He was appointed president in January 1942, replacing Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who had served in the position since 1917. Knorr was also a member...
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  • Joe Rutherford, an Aston Villa F.C. goalkeeper of the mid-20th-century John Rutherford (disambiguation), multiple people Joseph Franklin Rutherford, also...
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    seventh volume was commissioned by his successor as society president, Joseph Rutherford, and published in 1917.) The Watch Tower Society ceased publication...
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  • of Islam"; In 2023, the book was identified as Deliverance! by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, of the Watch Tower Society or Jehovah's Witnesses. On November...
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  • control of the legal entity Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford along with former members of the Bible Student movement would...
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  • by Joseph "Judge" Rutherford—retaining control of The Watch Tower and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Under Rutherford's direction...
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    Retrieved 9 February 2015. "Massacre of the Pure." Time. April 28, 1961. Joseph Reese Strayer (1992). The Albigensian Crusades. University of Michigan Press...
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  • emerged from the Bible Student movement under the influence of Joseph Franklin Rutherford. 1932: A neo-Hindu religious movement, the Brahma Kumaris or "Daughters...
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  • (1865–1919) John Chapman (1865–1933) Silouan the Athonite (1866–1938) Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869—1942) Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916) William J. Seymour (1870–1922)...
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  • of God (Seventh Day) movement. The movement was influenced by Joseph Franklin Rutherford after he changed the name of the main branch of the Bible Student...
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  • Student movement and Jehovah's Witnesses, author of Millennial Dawn Joseph Franklin Rutherford, 2nd president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Alan...
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    from Montana Theron Moses Rice, U.S. Congressman from Missouri Joseph Franklin Rutherford (Founder of Jehovah's Witnesses and 2nd President of the Watch...
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    County Library. Dwight Bolinger, linguist Bill Laurie, executive Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Jehovah's Witness preacher Bud Walton, co-founder of Walmart...
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  • Gentile converts. Watch Tower publications during the presidency of Joseph Franklin Rutherford commended the commercial and emergency uses of blood. A 1925 issue...
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  • visualize—a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long. His rise to power began when one of his flock...
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  • issued. The document, written by Watch Tower Society president Joseph Franklin Rutherford, asserted the group's political neutrality, appealed for the right...
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  • literature attacked the clergy and political leaders of the country. Joseph Franklin Rutherford, the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society...
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  • president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, began objecting to state laws requiring school students to salute...
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