| Nelson Trout (first U.S. Lutheran African American bishop) Trout was elected bishop of
the South Pacific District of the American Lutheran Church (ALC) in 1983, a position he
served through 1987. At the time of his election he was a professor and director of
minority studies at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. He was renown as a moving
and powerful preacher throughout the church. He served pastorates in Alabama (where he
became a friend and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), California and Wisconsin,
and as Executive Director of Lutheran Social Services, Dayton, Ohio. On two occasions he
served the ALC in executive capacities: as Associate Youth Director (1962-67) and Director
of Urban Evangelism (1968-70). He died in 1996 at the age of 76.
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