Coming up Melissa Etheridge |
July 14, 1952 | William Franklin Graham III was born in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the fourth of five children of famed evangelist Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth Bell Graham. | |
1966 | Graham's parents sent the teen-ager to Stony Brook, an elite Christian boarding school on Long Island, New York. He dropped out his junior year and finished high school in North Carolina. | |
1972 | Graham was kicked out of LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas, for keeping a female classmate out all night past curfew. | |
1974 | At age 22, Franklin Graham committed his life to Jesus Christ while alone in a Jerusalem hotel room. "My years of running and rebellion had ended," he said in his autobiography. | |
1974 | Graham married Jane Austin Cunningham. | |
1974 | Graham received an associate degree from Montreat College, a Christian liberal arts college near Asheville, North Carolina | |
1975 | The Grahams began a family with the birth of a son, William Franklin IV, or Will. They have three more children, Roy Austin, born in 1977; Edward Bell, in 1979; and Jane Austin, or Cissie, in 1986. | |
1978 | Graham received a bachelor of arts degree in business from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. | |
1979 | Graham became president of Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief organization based in Boone. Today, he is president, chairman and chief executive officer of Samaritan's Purse. | |
1982 | Graham was ordained at Grace Community Church in Tempe, Arizona. | |
1995 | In his autobiography, "Rebel With a Cause: Finally Comfortable Being Graham," Graham described his early struggles and his transformation from a rebellious, beer-drinking motorcyclist into a minister and missionary. | |
November 2000 | Graham took more leadership reins in his father's ministry, becoming chief executive officer of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | |
January 2001 | Filling in for his ill father, Graham gave the invocation at President George W. Bush's swearing-in ceremony in Washington. |
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