Jacob Preus

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Jacob Preus, more completely Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus, is the name of three generations of important American Lutherans:

  • J. A. O. Preus (1883-1961), politician, Governor of Minnesota from 1921 to 1925
  • J. A. O. Preus II (1920-1994), theologian, President of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod from 1969 to 1981
  • J. A. O. Preus III (born 1953), theologian, President of Concordia University, Irvine, California

See also[edit]

  • Preus, more people with the same surname