Argile Smith
| Argile Asa Smith, Jr. | |
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| 9th interim President of Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana | |
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In office August 1, 2014 (interim) – April 7, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Aguillard became president emeritus for one year effective August 1, 2014. |
| Succeeded by | Rick Brewer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 9, 1955 Poplarville, Pearl River County Mississippi, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Not a registered voter |
| Spouse(s) | Connie Kathleen Saucier Smith (married 1975) |
| Children | Joshua, David, and Dustin Smith |
| Residence | Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
Argile Asa Smith, Jr. (born July 9, 1955), is a clergyman and scholar who served as the ninth and interim president of the Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana, from August 2014 to April 2015.
Born and reared in Poplarville in Pearl River County in southwestern Mississippi, Smith in 1977 obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion from William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He subsequently procured a Master of Divinity and a Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where while in New Orleans, he was thereafter for fourteen years the J. D. Grey professor of preaching at the seminary.
Smith is the author of three ministerial books:
Before he came to Louisiana College in 2011, Smith was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Biloxi, Mississippi. He came to LC as Dean of Chapel and Associate Dean of Pastoral Ministry for the Caskey School of Divinity, an entity endowed by the Coushatta businessman Edgar Cason, who has since withdrawn funding for the school and entered into an arrangement with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Smith's former institution.
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