[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 163 (Saturday, December 17, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2580]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               IN RECOGNITION OF REV. JOHN R. CLAYPOOL IV

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, December 16, 2005

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remember and pay 
tribute to the Reverend John Rowan Claypool IV, who passed September 3, 
2005. He was internationally and nationally recognized as one of the 
most gifted spiritual leaders and teachers of our time.
  Dr. Claypool was ordained to ministry in 1953 and served as Pastor of 
five Baptist Churches in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi. He 
was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1986 and served as Rector of Saint 
Luke's Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama for nearly 14 years. He 
retired from full time parish ministry in 2000 and, since that time, 
had served as the Professor of Homiletics at Mercer University's School 
of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia.
  He has written many books education others of the things he has 
learned through the death of his 10 year old daughter, and the accounts 
of his role in the struggle for Civil Rights. Dr. Claypool was truly a 
model citizen and will be sorely missed. His word lives on through his 
wife, Ann; and their children.
  Again, Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to honor and pay homage to the 
Reverend John R. Claypool IV in the House today and hope that we may 
all strive to live as he did.

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