Daniel A. Poling

Poling was born in Portland, Oregon, to Charles Cupp Poling and Savilla Kring Poling in 1884.{{sfn|Feller|2007|p=676}} His father was also a minister, and two of his brothers, Paul N. Poling and Charles S. Poling, became clergymen as well.{{sfn|Altoona Tribune 1947}} Charles Cupp Poling came to Oregon as a missionary of the Evangelical Association in 1883, shortly before Daniel Poling's birth, and was one of the ministers who helped found the United Brethren Church.{{sfn|Williamsport Sun-Gazette 1947}} Daniel Poling graduated from Dallas College in Dallas, Oregon, which his father had founded.{{sfn|Daily Times 1968}} He married Susan Jane Vandersall in 1906. Among their children was Clark V. Poling, one of the Four Chaplains lost aboard the SS Dorchester in World War II.{{sfn|Feller|2007|p=677}}

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Poling was ordained in the United Brethren Church in 1906 in Carey, Ohio.{{sfn|Daily Capital Journal 1956}} He quickly became involved in the campaign to prohibit alcohol in the United States.{{sfn||American Issue 1913}} During World War I, Poling helped to organize a unit of chaplains to serve with the American Expeditionary Force in France.{{sfn|Feller|2007|p=676}} He served near the front, was involved in an enemy gas attack, and received a citation from the United States government.{{sfn|Feller|2007|p=676}} From 1922 to 1939, he preached at the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, and began giving weekly radio addresses.{{sfn|Daily Capital Journal 1956}} While there, he came to know Norman Vincent Peale, who later described Poling as "one of the greatest servants of Jesus Christ in this age or any other".{{sfn|Daily Capital Journal 1956}} In 1927, he became the editor of the Christian Herald, a non-denominational Protestant journal that became more successful under his leadership.{{sfn|Feller|2007|p=676}} He would remain at the Herald's helm until 1966. The same year, he became the head of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour.

He resigned from the Marble Collegiate Church in 1939 to become owner of the Herald.{{sfn|Feller|2007|p=676}} Under his editorship, the journal continued to support American military actions, the draft, and the development of atomic weapons.{{sfn|Feller|2007|p=676}} Poling was also a strong proponent of the separation of church and state.{{sfn|Greenberg|2000|p=274}} After his son, Clark, was lost at sea during World War II along with three other clergymen, Poling helped found the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadelphia in their memory.{{sfn|Greenberg|2000|p=274}} He served there until his death in 1968.{{sfn|Daily Times 1968}}

Although he was never elected, Poling ran for several offices. He was the Prohibition Party's candidate for governor of Ohio in 1912, but polled very few votes.{{sfn|Greenberg|2000|p=274}} In 1951, having moved to Philadelphia, he was the Republican candidate for mayor in the election that year.{{sfn|Greenberg|2000|p=274}} He was defeated by Democrat Joseph S. Clark Jr.{{sfn|Daily Times 1951}} The following month, President Harry S. Truman selected Poling as an investigator into tax scandals in his administration.{{sfn|Greenberg|2000|p=273}} In 1960, he endorsed Richard M. Nixon for president, based on his distrust of John F. Kennedy's Catholic faith.{{sfn|Reichley|1985|p=225}}

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Books

• {{cite book|last=Feller|first=Wende Vyborney|editor-last=Shearer |editor-first=Benjamin F. |title=Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime |volume=3 |chapter=Poling, Daniel Alfred (1884-1968)|date=2007|pages=676–677 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location =Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-33423-8 }}
• {{cite book |last=Greenberg |first=Gerald S. |title=Historical Encyclopedia of U.S. Independent Counsel Investigations |date=2000 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl0000unse/page/273 273–275] |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=0-313-30735-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl0000unse/page/273 }}
• {{cite book |last=Reichley |first=James |title=Religion in American Public Life |date=1985 |publisher=Brookings Institution |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=0-8157-7377-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/religioninameric0000reic }}

Magazine

• {{cite journal|title=Daniel A. Poling, Prohibitionist Candidate for Governor of Ohio, to be Speaker at Big Anti-Saloon League Convention|journal=The American Issue|date=June 10, 1913|volume=8|issue=23|page=11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omMzAQAAMAAJ|ref={{sfnRef|American Issue 1913}} }}

Newspapers

• {{cite news|title=Church Pioneer Dies in Oregon at Age of 88|work=Williamsport Sun-Gazette|location=Williamsport, Pennsylvania|date=June 16, 1947|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/41011744/|page=17|ref={{sfnRef|Williamsport Sun-Gazette 1947}}|url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite news|title=Daniel A. Poling Honored on 50th Year as Pastor|work=Daily Capital Journal|location=Salem, Oregon|date=September 29, 1956|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/94772928/|page=3|ref={{sfnRef|Daily Capital Journal 1956}} }}
• {{cite news|title=Democrats End 67-Year GOP Rule in Philadelphia|work=Delaware County Daily Times|date=November 7, 1951|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/54136022|ref={{sfnRef|Daily Times 1951}} }}
• {{cite news|title=Dr. Poling Dies|work=The Altoona Tribune|location=Altoona, Pennsylvania|date=June 16, 1947|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/57164460/|page=1|ref={{sfnRef|Altoona Tribune 1947}} }}
• {{cite news |title=Dr. Poling Dies at 83; Clergyman|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/14186419|work=Delaware County Daily Times|date=February 8, 1968|ref={{sfnRef|Daily Times 1968}} }}

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Category:Clergy from Portland, Oregon

Category:Ministers of the Evangelical United Brethren Church