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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1358 

Honoring the life of the Reverend Billy Graham on the occasion of his 

90th birthday and recognizing his decades of public service and his 

commitment to furthering the faith of Christians around the world. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 21, 2008 

Mr. SHULER (for himself, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. 

DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. EHLERS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. HAYES, 

Mr. BOYD of Florida, Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. ELLSWORTH, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. ROSS, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. TANNER, Mr. 

WAMP, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. MCINTYRE, Ms. FALLIN, Mr. CHILDERS, Mr. 

JONES of North Carolina, Mr. WOLF, Mr. BOREN, Mr. SPACE, Mr. 

CARDOZA, and Mr. CRAMER) submitted the following resolution; which 

was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the life of the Reverend Billy Graham on the 

occasion of his 90th birthday and recognizing his decades 

of public service and his commitment to furthering the 

faith of Christians around the world. 

Whereas Billy Graham was born on November 7, 1918, and 

raised on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, 

where he learned the values of hard work and family; 

Whereas Billy Graham committed himself to Jesus Christ at 

the age of 16 and was ordained in 1939 into the Southern Baptist Convention; 


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Whereas Billy Graham graduated from Wheaton College in 

Illinois in 1949 and studied Scriptures at Florida Bible 

Institute (presently Trinity College); 

Whereas Billy Graham spent the years during and immediately after World War II ministering to youth and 

members of the Armed Forces in Europe and the United 

States; 

Whereas during the Cold War, and amidst the spread of 

Communism, Billy Graham risked a great deal to journey 

to the Soviet bloc to oppose state-sponsored atheism; 

Whereas Billy Graham utilized the power of his ministry to 

speak out against apartheid in South Africa; 

Whereas Billy Graham has provided religious advice and 

counsel to Presidents Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald 

Reagan, George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and 

George W. Bush, numerous Members of Congress, and 

other dignitaries, including Sir Winston Churchill, Queen 

Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail 

Gorbachev, Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, Francois 

Mitterand, Helmut Kohl, King Hussein, Indira Gandhi, 

and Haile Selassie; 

Whereas Billy Graham has been named as an honorary 

knight by the Order of the British Empire, and has been 

the recipient of, among others, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Freedom Award, the Congressional 

Gold Medal, the Templeton Foundation Prize for 

Progress in Religion, and the Big Brother Award; 


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Whereas, since 1948, Billy Graham has been listed in 

Gallup’s poll of the ‘‘Ten Most Admired Men in the 

World’’ 51 times (44 times consecutively); 

Whereas Billy Graham has authored 27 books, including 

many best-sellers, such as his memoirs, ‘‘Just as I Am’’, 

as well as ‘‘Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen 

of the Apocalypse’’, ‘‘How to be Born Again’’, ‘‘Angels: 

God’s Secret Agents’’, and ‘‘the Jesus Generation’’; 

Whereas the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) 

was formed in 1950, and ministers to the public through 

a weekly radio program that has broadcast worldwide for 

over 50 years, television broadcasts on over 150 channels 

across the United States and in Canada, internationally 

and nationally syndicated newspaper columns, a magazine published by the BGEA with a circulation of over 

600,000, and more than 125 evangelistic films; 

Whereas, since 1973, the BGEA World Emergency Relief 

Fund has given more than $10 million for domestic and 

international disaster relief; 

Whereas Billy Graham has personally reached more people 

through his evangelism than any other preacher in history (almost 215 million individuals in over 185 countries, and many more through radio and television); and 

Whereas Billy Graham embodies the message conveyed in 

scripture in Mark 16:15, ‘‘Go ye into all the world and 

preach the Gospel to every creature’’: Now, therefore, be 

it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors 

2 the life of the Reverend Billy Graham on the occasion of 

3 his 90th birthday and recognizes his decades of public 


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1 service and his commitment to furthering the faith of 

2 Christians around the world. 

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