Neal C. Wilson
American Seventh-day Adventist minister (1920–2010)
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.
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.
Biography
Neal C. Wilson was president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 1979 to 1990. He received his elementary and secondary education, plus two years of college, in Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, and India. These were countries where his father served the Seventh-day Adventist Church in pastoral and administrative posts. Wilson is an alumnus of Pacific Union College in Angwin, California.
Neal C. Wilson's son, Ted N. C. Wilson, would follow his father's footsteps and become the president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 2010 until 2025.
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