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William Sloane Coffin  

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  • William Sloane Coffin was the chaplain at Yale University from 1958 to 1975 and the senior minister of Riverside Church in New York City from 1977 to 1987, the most visible and activist pulpit in the United States. Coffin is most popularly known as the inspiration for the Reverend Sloan character in Garry Trudeau's immortal comic strip Doonesbury. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Coffin, William Sloane (1924–2006)]

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