page_title: John Wesley Hill
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: John Wesley Hill / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: John Hays Hammond at the World Court Congress in 1916 with the other officers
context_page_description: John Wesley Hill was an American Methodist minister, political activist, author, and the chancellor of Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee from 1916 to 1936.
context_section_description: Hill was known for mixing politics and religion, campaigning for example with William H. Taft. During World War I Hill was involved with several organizations campaigning for peace and world governance, serving as general secretary of the World's Court League 1915-6 (and editor of their publication, The World's Court) and president of the International Peace Forum.
  Hill published through the Peace Forum a debate he participated in on May 7, 1913 with Dr. Bouck White on the question "Resolved: That socialism is a peril to the state and the church" (with Hill affirming the proposition). Inez Milholland was the moderator.
caption: World's Court League in 1916. Seated from left to right are: Emerson McMillin, John Hays Hammond, and unknown. Standing from left to right are: unknown, Henry Riggs Rathbone, and John Wesley Hill
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