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Daniel Alfred Poling (November 30, 1884 – February 7, 1968) was an American Brethren clergyman.

Early life and family

Poling was born in Portland, Oregon, to Charles Cupp Poling and Savilla Kring Poling in 1884.Шаблон:Sfn His father was also a minister, and two of his brothers, Paul N. Poling and Charles S. Poling, became clergymen as well.Шаблон:Sfn Charles Cupp Poling came to Oregon as a missionary of the Evangelical Association in 1883, shortly before Daniel Poling's birth, and was one of the ministers who helped found the United Brethren Church.Шаблон:Sfn Daniel Poling graduated from Dallas College in Dallas, Oregon, which his father had founded.Шаблон:Sfn He married Susan Jane Vandersall in 1906. Among their children was Clark V. Poling, one of the Four Chaplains lost aboard the SS Dorchester in World War II.Шаблон:Sfn

Minister

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The Marble Collegiate Church around the time Poling preached there

Poling was ordained in the United Brethren Church in 1906 in Carey, Ohio.Шаблон:Sfn He quickly became involved in the campaign to prohibit alcohol in the United States.Шаблон:Sfn During World War I, Poling helped to organize a unit of chaplains to serve with the American Expeditionary Force in France.Шаблон:Sfn He served near the front, was involved in an enemy gas attack, and received a citation from the United States government.Шаблон:Sfn From 1922 to 1939, he preached at the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, and began giving weekly radio addresses.Шаблон:Sfn While there, he came to know Norman Vincent Peale, who later described Poling as "one of the greatest servants of Jesus Christ in this age or any other".Шаблон:Sfn In 1927, he became the editor of the Christian Herald, a non-denominational Protestant journal that became more successful under his leadership.Шаблон:Sfn He would remain at the Herald's helm until 1966. The same year, he became the head of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour.

He resigned from the Marble Collegiate Church in 1939 to become owner of the Herald.Шаблон:Sfn Under his editorship, the journal continued to support American military actions, the draft, and the development of atomic weapons.Шаблон:Sfn Poling was also a strong proponent of the separation of church and state.Шаблон:Sfn After his son, Clark, was lost at sea during World War II along with three other clergymen, Poling helped found the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadelphia in their memory.Шаблон:Sfn He served there until his death in 1968.Шаблон:Sfn

Politics

Although he was never elected, Poling ran for several offices. He was the Prohibition Party's candidate for governor of Ohio in 1912, but polled very few votes.Шаблон:Sfn In 1951, having moved to Philadelphia, he was the Republican candidate for mayor in the election that year.Шаблон:Sfn He was defeated by Democrat Joseph S. Clark Jr.Шаблон:Sfn The following month, President Harry S. Truman selected Poling as an investigator into tax scandals in his administration.Шаблон:Sfn In 1960, he endorsed Richard M. Nixon for president, based on his distrust of John F. Kennedy's Catholic faith.Шаблон:Sfn

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