Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple McPherson (born October 9, 1890, near Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada—died September 27, 1944, Oakland, California, U.S.) was a controversial American Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel brought her wealth, notoriety, and a following numbering in the tens of thousands. Aimee Kennedy was reared by her mother as a Salvation Army daughter but began to question that religious movement at a young age. She preached her own brand...