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National Lutheran Council. Executive Director (1918-1923 : Larsen). Files, 1918-1922.

Title: Files, 1918-1922.

Files of Executive Director Lauritz Larsen contain correspondence, speeches, commissioner credentials, reports, official documents and committee minutes regarding the National Lutheran Council's (NLC) organization and activities during Larsen's tenure (1918-1923). Files regard inter-Lutheran relations and cooperation, Larsen's efforts in promoting and representing Lutheran issues in Washington D.C., NLC publicity, formation of the Lutheran World Convention, work of the NLC's European Commission in providing aid to European Lutherans in areas devastated by World War I (WWI), and cooperation with American and European. Relief agencies and missions in providing overseas relief. Notable correspondents include: Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration; John Morehead, head of the NLC European Commissioners; Julius Bursche, General Superintendent of the Lutheran Churches in Poland; Carl Paul, Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig, Germany; J. Michael Reu, theologian and leader of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States; Gustav A. Brandelle, President of Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America; and Frederick Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church in America.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes.

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