What is Billy Graham?
{{vgood}} {{Infobox clergy | name = Billy Graham | honorific_suffix = [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]] | image = Reverend Billy Graham Delivering The Prayer At the Inauguration of Bill Clinton (cropped).jpg | caption = Graham in 1993 | birth_name = William Franklin Graham Jr. | birth_date = {{birth date |1918|11|7}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Charlotte, North Carolina]], U.S.}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|2|21|1918|11|7}} | death_place = {{nowrap|[[Montreat, North Carolina]], U.S.}} | occupation = [[Evangelism|Evangelist]] | spouse = Ruth Graham | children = 5, including [[Franklin Graham|Franklin]] and [[Anne Graham Lotz|Anne]] | education = Diploma in Biblical Studies, Florida Bible Institute (Trinity Bible College) <br>B.A. in Anthropology, [[Wheaton College (Illinois)|Wheaton College]] | ordained = [[Southern Baptist]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Indepth: Billy Graham|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/graham_billy/|publisher=CBC|access-date=December 1, 2011|archive-date=January 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119143909/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/graham_billy/|url-status=dead}}</ref> | nationality = American | writings = | congregations = | offices_held = President, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | title = Doctor (Honorary) | signature = Billy Graham Signature.svg | website = {{URL|http://www.billygraham.org/}} }} '''William Franklin Graham Jr.''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|KBE}} (November 7, 1918 &ndash; February 21, 2018), better known as '''Billy Graham''', was an [[Americans|American]] [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] [[Christianity|Christian]] minister and [[Evangelism|evangelist]]. He was a member of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. Graham is most well known as the one of the most important and most famous preachers of the [[20th Century]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/billy-graham-9780190683528?cc=us&lang=en&#|title=Billy Graham: American Pilgrim|date=26 June 2017|publisher=Oxford Uni