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SSCARLETT, WILLIAM (3 October 1883, Columbus, Ohio–28 March 1973,Castine, Me.). Education: A.B., Harvard College, 1905; B.D., Episcopal TheologicalSchool, 1909. Career: Assistant, St. George’s Church, New York, 1909–11; dean, Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, 1911–22; dean, Christ Church Cathedral,St. Louis, 1922–30; bishop coadjutor, diocese of Missouri, 1930–33; bishop, dioceseof Missouri, 1933–53.A bishop and advocate of the social gospel, William Scarlett was born in Columbus,Ohio, in 1883. After graduating from Harvard College, he could notdecide whether to become a doctor or an Episcopal priest. He spent a year workingon a ranch in western Nebraska and eventually decided to study for the ordainedministry. In 1906, he entered the Episcopal Theological School. In his early lifehe had been influenced by two great social gospel leaders: Washington Gladden,the minister of the Congregational church in Columbus, and Walter Rauschenbusch,a theologian who taught at Rochester Theological Seminary. While he wasstudying at the theological school, Scarlett also attended classes at Harvard in thenew field of Christian ethics. Following his graduation and ordination in thespring of 1909, he served for two years as an assistant at St. George’s Church inNew York City—an Episcopal parish renowned for its social outreach ministry.In 1911 Scarlett was called to be dean of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix. Whileserving there, he began to establish a reputation as a preacher and pastor whowas willing to assist workers in disputes with management. He next accepted acall in 1922 to become the dean of Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis, a downtownchurch and the oldest Episcopal parish west of the Mississippi. Along withthe rabbi of a local Jewish congregation, Scarlett created the Social Justice Commissionin St. Louis. This organization offered mediation in various labor-relatedconflicts in the city. When Frederick Foote Johnson, the bishop of Missouri,