Paul Hardin Jr. (November 7, 1903 – June 22, 1996)[1] was a bishop in The Methodist Church in the U.S., elected in 1960.
He attended Wofford College in 1920, where he studied law and then to Candler School of Theology, Emory University in 1924, where he received his divinity degree in 1927.
He was assigned to pastorates in North Carolina and in 1949 he was appointed to Birmingham, Alabama First Methodist Church.
From 1961 to 1964 he also had charge of the Alabama-West Florida Conference following the death of Bishop Bachman Gladstone Hodge.
They had three children, a daughter named Betsy Reel Hardin, and two sons, Paul III and Edward.