T. Bronson Ray (14 August 1868 – 1 January 1934) was a Southern Baptist minister who administered the church's foreign mission board (now the International Mission Board), eventually becoming its Executive Secretary.
[1][2] Ray received his secondary education at the Elliott Institute, Kirksville, Kentucky, and in normal school in Lebanon, Ohio.
from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of Louisville, Kentucky in 1898.
"[1] He continued with this work for the rest of his life, eventually becoming Executive Secretary of the Foreign Missions Board in 1928.
[2] In spite of a lifelong career in the foreign missions field, Ray is known to have travelled abroad only once, in 1910, to Brazil, an experience he wrote a book about.