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Sep 30, 1854 Died on 04 Jul 1931 (aged 76)
American theologian
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About Isaiah Benjamin Scott
- Isaiah Benjamin Scott or I.B.
- Scott (September 30, 1854 - July 4, 1931) was an American theologian, educator, and journalist. Scott was an ordained Methodist Episcopal reverend and elder; and was active in the leadership of the denomination.
- He attended five general conferences, three Ecumenical Methodist conferences and served on the church's National Book and Missionary committees.
- Scott was appointed by the Methodist Episcopal Church to be the first African-American President of Wiley College in Marshall, Texas and to serve as a Missionary Bishop in Liberia.
- Scott served as one of the African-American commissioners from Texas to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and the Atlanta Exposition in 1895.
- In 1909 Scott was honored with knighthood in the Humane Order of African Redemption.
