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Shelton Bishop Waters was an African American Presbyterian minister. Born in
1918 in Pittsburgh, he was educated at Johnson C. Smith University
(Charlotte, N.C.) and Lincoln University. From 1947 to 1969 he was pastor of
First African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, serving as moderator of
the presbytery in 1965 and moderator of the Synod of the Trinity in 1966.
From 1975 to 1985 he was pastor of Northeastern Presbyterian Church
(Washington, D.C.). He died in 2013.