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Joseph Franklin Rutherford 1869-1942, American sectarian leader, b. Missouri. He became leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Russellites) after the death of the sect's founder, Charles T. Russell , in 1916. Under the direction of Rutherford the Witnesses' attack on the existing social order took on an increasingly revolutionary tone. In 1918 he served a year's imprisonment in Atlanta, Ga., for his encouragement of conscientious objectors. His writings were widely distributed among Witnesses in the United States and abroad.

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Rutherford, Joseph Franklin (1869–1942), ‘Judge Rutherford’, second head of the organization popularly known as Jehovah's Witnesses (q.v.). Of Baptist family, he practised law in Missouri. In 1906 he joined the Bible Students of C. T. Russell and soon became the organization's legal counsel. Elected its President in 1917, he moulded it into a theocratic organization resilient enough to withstand persecution in many countries during the Second World War.

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