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- Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Parthenon Press, 1948.
- Short, Roy Hunter, Bp., History of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church 1939-1979, Nashville, Abingdon, 1980.
