Neal C. Wilson | |
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17th President of the General Conference of Seventh day Adventists | |
In office 1979–1990 | |
Preceded by | Robert H. Pierson |
Succeeded by | Robert S. Folkenberg |
Personal details | |
Born | Lodi, California | 5 July 1920
Died | 14 December 2010 Dayton, Maryland | (aged 90)
Profession | Pastor |
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Neal Clayton Wilson (July 5, 1920 – December 14, 2010) served as the president of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1979 to 1990. Wilson was head of the North American Division when elected on January 3, 1979, to take the place of the ailing former General Conference president Robert Pierson, who had resigned for reasons of health.[1][2]
He was succeeded as General Conference President on July 6, 1990, by Robert Folkenberg, who was then the president of the Carolina Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Wilson died December 14, 2010. He was 90 years old.[3]