Luther Rice

The Reverend Luther Rice
Luther Rice Silhouette ca1830 cut by Emily Redd of Ruther Glenn, Caroline County, Virginia.
Born	25 March 1783 Northborough, Massachusetts
Died	25 September 1836 (1836-09-26) (aged 53) Edgefield, South Carolina
Alma mater	Williams College

Luther Rice (25 March 1783 – 27 September 1836) was an American Baptist minister who, after a thwarted mission to India, returned to America where he spent the remainder of his career raising funds for missions and advocating for the formation of a unified Baptist missionary-sending body, which culminated in establishment of the Baptist Triennial Convention (which later split with the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention). He also raised funds to establish Columbian College (now George Washington University) in Washington, D.C.^[1]