Clarke, James Freeman (1810–1888)

US religious leader. A supporter of temperance, the abolition of slavery, and women's suffrage, he was pastor of the Unitarian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and edited theWestern Messenger from Louisville 1836–39, in which he published articles by, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He founded the Unitarian Church of the Disciples in 1841. He taught at Harvard Divinity School from 1867–71.

He was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, and graduated from Harvard in 1829. He was the author of many books, including Ten Great Religions (1871).