Louise Pettibone Smith

Louise Pettibone Smith (1887–1981) was an American biblical scholar, professor, translator, author and social activist. She was the first woman published in the Journal of Biblical Literature in 1917. She later became chair of the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born and denounced the House Un-American Activities Committee for its "McCarthyism".

Early life and education Smith was born in Ogdensburg, New York on October 4, 1887. Her grandfather was one of the founders of the Abolition Society in New York State and her father was an editor of the Republican paper in northern New York.

Smith received her bachelor's degree in 1908, master's degree in 1912, and doctorate in Semitic languages and Palestinian archeology in 1917, all from Bryn Mawr College. to the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, living there in 1913–1914. She served as secretary of the society from 1950 to 1952 and represented the society at the Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in New York in 1951. In 1962, a testimonial dinner was held in New York in her honor, at which she was called "Lover of truth and Crusader for Justice."

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