SBC Resolution Passed in 1964
"As in years past, our Convention has in this year been led by some of our ablest men and women. We are grateful to God for the dedicated leadership thus afforded us, and express our sincere appreciation to these leaders....We acknowledge with gratitude the leadership of Vice-Presidents Paul S. James and Mrs. R. L. Mathis. It is especially noteworthy that Mrs. Mathis is the first woman to serve as an officer of this Convention."
From the 1964 Convention annual:
SBC President [K. Owen] White, who had Marie Mathis preside at the 1964 annual meeting, was a noted Conservative!
Capitol Hill Baptist Church has always been doctrinally conservative
9 Marks • History of Capitol Hill Baptist Church
"While American Protestantism struggled through the tumultuous theological battles of the 1920s and 30s, by the grace of God, this church remained a church in which the Bible was believed and preached as the inspired and inerrant Word of God....In 1941, Dr. Ball became Pastor Emeritus, and was succeeded for the next 9 years until 1950 by
Dr. K. Owen White, a future President of the SBC."
1963 • SBC Messengers Choose Texas Conservative as President, Elect a Woman Vice-President
"K. Owen White, pastor of First Baptist Church, Houston, Tex., and leader of conservatives forces, [was elected] as Convention president"
"Mrs. R. L. Mathis...[was elected] as second vice·president of the Convention
Mrs. Mathis is the first woman ever elected to one of the top three Convention offices. At the next business session a messenger tried to push through a motion to exclude women from consideration as officers but it lost."
