Joseph G. Morrison

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Joseph G. Morrison (1871-1947) was an American minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and raised in South Dakota, where he became a Methodist minister, Dr. Joseph G. Morrison was one of the founders of the Laymen's Holiness Association, and served as its president until he joined the Church of the Nazarene in 1921. He was a district superintendent, college president and from 1927 to 1936 executive secretary of the Department of Foreign Missions. Dr. Morrison was elected general superintendent in 1936, and served in that office until his death in 1939.