[1] Spright Dowell was born in Cary, North Carolina on January 2, 1878.

[2] He taught and worked as a school principal in Alabama and North Carolina.

[2] From 1920 to 1927, he was the President of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University.

[2] He also served as secretary-treasurer of the Southern Baptist Education Commission, and became its Chairman in 1953.

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