David Foote Rivers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1859
Place of Birth: Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 05-Jul-1941
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About David Foote Rivers
- David Foote Rivers (July 18, 1859-July 5, 1941) was an African-American theologian and politician.
- He served as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for Fayette County from 1883 to 1884.
- He was reelected but was forced to flee the county due to rising racist violence, and he taught at his alma mater, Roger Williams University, in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Rivers became the pastor of Metropolitan Baptist church in Kansas City, Missouri in the 1890s, and he later served as the pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Washington, D.C..
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