 Paul Hardin Jr.

Paul Hardin Jr. (November 7, 1903 – June 22, 1996) was a bishop in The Methodist Church in the U.S., elected in 1960.He was Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in 1963 when he joined seven other white clergymen to write the letter "A Call For Unity", making a thinly veiled reference to Martin Luther King Jr.; King replied to this letter with his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".