Ernest Lynn Waldorf
Ernest Lynn Waldorf (May 14, 1876 – July 27, 1943) was an American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1920. He was born on a farm in South Valley, Otsego County, New York, and joined the Central New York Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1900. Before becoming a bishop, he served as a pastor and as a chaplain in the 74th Regiment of the National Guard in Buffalo from 1911 to 1915. His son was football coach Pappy Waldorf.
As bishop in Kansas City in the 1920s, he supported a plan for Lincoln and Lee University to be built on the Westport battlefield, named for Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, and centered on a national Civil War memorial. The project would later form the basis of the University of Missouri–Kansas City, which is not affiliated with the church.
Waldorf gave invocations at the Republican National Conventions in 1928 (June 15) and 1936 (June 10). He died after a few months of illness on July 27, 1943, at Noble Foundation Hospital in Alexandria Bay, New York, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York.
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