Hoggard, James Clinton
Biographical notes:
James Clinton Hoggard, born in 1910, pastured seven A.M.E. Zion churches before he was elected in 1952 to administer the Department of Overseas Missions. His duties included the editorship of the "Missionary Seer," the official missions monthly publication of the Church. In 1972 Hoggard was elected bishop of the Third, Fourth and Sixth Episcopal Districts, including the Indiana, Kentucky, North Alabama, East-Tennessee-Virginia, Western New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, London-Birmingham (England) and Jamaica Conferences, as well as the Barbados and Bahamas, Guyana (South America) Conferences. He retired from this position in 1992. Hoggard belonged to and was active in a myriad of interdenominational, interfaith, interreligious and intercultural agencies. He died in 2002.
Hoggard's wife, Eva Stanton Hoggard, served as Missionary Supervisor of the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society; she died in 1997.
From the description of James Clinton Hoggard papers, 1940-2002. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144682711
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