IV 
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. ELLS-
WORTH, 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 South-
ern 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 imme-
diately 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. Ei-
senhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Rich-
ard 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 Presi-
dential 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 maga-
zine 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 his-
tory (almost 215 million individuals in over 185 coun-
tries, 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors 
the life of the Reverend Billy Graham on the occasion of 
his 90th birthday and recognizes his decades of public 
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service and his commitment to furthering the faith of 
Christians around the world. 
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