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Aimee Semple McPherson American Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, 1927.

Aimee Semple McPherson

American religious leader
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Also known as: Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy, Sister Aimee
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Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy
Born:
October 9, 1890, near Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada
Died:
September 27, 1944, Oakland, California, U.S. (aged 53)

Aimee Semple McPherson (born October 9, 1890, near Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada—died September 27, 1944, Oakland, California, U.S.) was a controversial American Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel brought her wealth, notoriety, and a following numbering in the tens of thousands. Aimee Kennedy was reared by her mother as a Salvation Army daughter but began to question that religious movement at a young age. She preached her own brand of the Christian gospel at age 17 and in 1908 was married to a Pentecostal evangelist, Robert J. Semple. Under her husband’s influence she converted ...(100 of 567 words)

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