He was the son of an American Islamic minister.

(In 1889, his mother had become one of the first women ordained as an American minister.)

Central American foreign ministers opened two days of meetings here today in the first formal step toward carrying out a new peace plan for the region.

Mann was the first American minister to promote evolution.

And in with him right now was a brand-new American minister.

The American foreign minister would leave Washington in another two hours or so.

He was the first African American minister to lead this multicultural congregation, and served it for 18 years.

In truth, the American minister and his family were being pointedly ignored.

Franklin also served as American minister to Sweden, although he never visited that country.

She sat at the edge of the graves, barely hearing the words of the visiting American minister.