Orange Scott

Orange Scott (1800-1847) was an American Methodist Episcopal minister, abolitionist, and Presiding Elder who seceded from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1842 over slavery and church government issues. He presided over the 1843 convention that founded the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America and edited its periodical, the True Wesleyan, championing antislavery views influenced by John Wesley and Garrisonian abolitionism. Born into poverty in Vermont, he became a revival preacher and key figure in splitting Methodism along antislavery lines.