Hugo McCord

{{Short description|American preacher and biblical scholar}}

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Hugo McCord (1911–2004) was an American preacher and biblical scholar within the Churches of Christ in America.{{dead link|date=July 2013}} {{cite web |url=http://www.friendsoftherestoration.com/research/connections/born-in-mississippi/mccord-carl-hugo-2.html |title=IPage |accessdate=September 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211612/http://www.friendsoftherestoration.com/research/connections/born-in-mississippi/mccord-carl-hugo-2.html |archivedate=March 3, 2016 }}. He produced his own translation of the New Testament (and Genesis, Psalms, and Proverbs), titled The Everlasting Gospel, which he affectionately called the Freed-Hardeman Version.[https://fhu.yourmembership.com/store/view_product.asp?id=5154]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.http://www.theexaminer.org/volume3/number2/hugo.htm

McCord attended a number of schools: Freed–Hardeman College (now Freed–Hardeman University), the University of Illinois, the University of Tulsa, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to serving as a preacher in a number of congregations, he taught at Oklahoma Christian College (now Oklahoma Christian University).

Among his many converts he baptized American church historian Earl Irvin West in 1935.{{cite news

|first = Don

|last = Meredith

|date = Spring 2011

|title = Campus Mourns Loss of Earl West

|newspaper = Bridge

|place = Memphis, Tennessee

|publisher = Harding School of Theology

|volume = 51

|issue = 4

|pages = 1, 3

}}