Photograph of Monroe Elmon Dodd. 1923. Monroe Elmon Dodd was born in Brazil, Tennessee, on September 8, 1878. He was ordained in April 1902, while a student at Union University, from which he graduated in 1904. Later in life he would receive three D.D. degrees: from Clinton College in 1908, from Union University in 1909, and from Baylor University in 1918. In his last year at Union, Dodd was called to be pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fulton, Kentucky. He took leave from Fulton after a few months when he was called by the Foreign Mission Board to be a missionary to Mexico. After several months of prayer, he returned to the Fulton church. He founded The Baptist Message, which later merged into the Baptist and Reflector. In 1908 he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Paducah, Kentucky. Three years later he was called to the Twenty-Second and Walnut Street Baptist Church in Louisville. In 1912 he accepted the call of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana. During WWI he worked among soldiers with the YMCA in Europe. He died on August 6, 1952. JPG file (143 KB)
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