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John Byington
John Byington became the first Adventist General Conference President in 1863. His term lasted for a good two years and two months. In 1852, He read the Review and Herald, now the Adventist Review, and began to keep the seventh-day Sabbath while James and Ellen White visited his house shortly after. -
James Springer White
James Springer White became the second Adventist General Conference President in 1865. He served for two years. He was born on August 4, 1861 and he died on August 6, 1881. His wife, Ellen G. White, is a well-known Adventist author; both him and his wife were founders of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. -
John Nevins Andrews
John Nevins Andrews Became the third Adventist General Conference President in 1867. He served his term for two years. He was born on July 22, 1829 and died October 21, 1883. He began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath in 1845 and met James White and Ellen G. White in September 1849. -
James Springer White
James Springer White became the fourth Adventist General Conference President in 1869. This was his second time being president. He served this term for two years. He was born in Palmyra, Maine and died in Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Michigan. He married his wife, Ellen, on August 30, 1846. He also had four children. -
George Ide Butler
George Ide Butler became the fifth Adventist General Conference President in 1871. He served his term for three years. George Ide Butler was born in Vermont in 1834 and died in 1918. He was baptized and converted in Iowa at age 22 by J.N. Andrews. He then settled and started to teach there. -
James Springer White
James Springer White became the sixth Adventist General Conference President in 1874. This was his third time as the Adventist General Conference President. He served his last term for six years. James White's paper which was initially started, "The Present Truth", was combined with another called the "Advent Review" in 1850 to become the "Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald" -
George Ide Butler
George Ide Butler became the seventh Adventist General Conference President in 1880. This was George Ide Butler's second time being president and he served this one for a whole eight years. Becasue of James White's failing health, he was elected president again. On March 10, 1859 he married Lentha Lockwood. They settled near Waukon, Iowa afterward.
