Joseph Franklin Rutherford

American lawyer, Watch Tower Society president (1869-1942) · United States · On the map · Lawyers · Died at 72

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, also known as Judge Rutherford, was an American religious leader and the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford is read about 224 times a day, in 32 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 110 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare

Also in Deutsch Français

Media & music

Photos 9

Joseph F. Rutherford (1911)

"The Finished Mystery", volume 7 of "Studies in the Scriptures"

J.F. Rutherford

"Millions Now Living Will Never Die" contains some of the earliest doctrinal changes.

Newspaper advertisement for Rutherford's "Millions" lecture

Rutherford with Cadillac V-16 from the Watchtower publication The Messenger (1931)

Rutherfords's 1940 booklet, Fifth Column , accused the Catholic Church of promoting mob violence against Jehovah's Witnesses.

About this person

He played a primary role in the organization and doctrinal development of Jehovah's Witnesses, which emerged from the Bible Student movement established by Charles Taze Russell.

Country

United States