Famous People with Name Sumner

Sumner Locke Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Sumner Locke Elliott: was an Australian (later American) novelist.Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Helena Sumner Locke (1881-1917) and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth.[1] Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalized in Elliott's autobiographical novel, Careful, He Might Hear You.Elliott became an actor and writer with the Independent Theatre. He was drafted into the Australian Army in 1942, but instead of being posted overseas, he worked as a clerk in Australia. He used these experiences as the inspiration for his controversial play, Rusty Bugles. The play toured extensively throughout Australia and achieved the notoriety of being closed down by the Chief Secretary's Office for obscenity.

Sumner Wheeler White III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sumner Wheeler White III: was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He was born in New York and died in Summit.

James Batcheller Sumner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Batcheller Sumner: American chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley.

Robert L. Sumner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert L. Sumner: Christian author, Baptist pastor, evangelist and editor of the fundamentalist newspaper called The Biblical Evangelist.He was pastor of a number of Baptist churches in Illinois, California, Texas and Ohio from the 1940s through the 1960s. He has also attended many Christian conferences and lectures. In 1959, he created the non-profit Sumner Evangelistic Foundation. In 1965, he was on the Council of 14 (now Council of 18) of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, and he changed the name of his foundation to Regular Baptist Evangelism. In May, 1966, this group launched a newsletter called The Regular Baptist Evangelist, which 9 months later became just The Biblical Evangelist. In November, 1980, The Biblical Evangelist stopped publication and Sumner became Managing Editor for another Christian newsletter, The Sword of the Lord. In 1982, Sumner left The Sword after a dispute with the editor that was mediated by Jack Hyles. After the ordeal, Sumner complained that he was left "without an editorial voice", so he re-started The Biblical Evangelist by sending letters to former subscribers asking them to resubscribe.

William Graham Sumner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Graham Sumner: was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology.His popular essays gave him a wide audience for his laissez-faire: advocacy of free markets, anti-imperialism, and the gold standard. He was a president of American Sociological Association from 1908 to 1909.

Charles Allen Sumner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Allen Sumner: was a U.S. Representative from California. He moved to California in 1856 and settled in San Francisco where he reported for the legislature from 1857 to 1861. Between the legislative sessions he was engaged in the state and county courts, in law-reportin

Charles Sumner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Sumner: was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American