Biography of Thomas F. Zimmerman Since its inception, the Assemblies of God has had 11 different general superintendents or chairmen. The longest tenure was that of Thomas F. Zimmerman, the 9th superintendent, who served from 1959 until 1985. Prior to serving in national office in Springfield, MO, the last church he pastored was First Assembly of God of Cleveland (Lyndhurst) Ohio, in 1951-52.
Full name		Thomas Fletcher Zimmerman
Birth		March 26, 1912, in Indianapolis, Indiana
Death		January 2, 1991
Family
	Parents	Thomas Fletcher and Carrie D. (Kenagy) Zimmerman
	Marital Status	Married to Elizabeth H. Price, June 17, 1933
	Children	Betty, Thomas Fletcher III, David
Conversion		1919. Experienced baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1923
Ordination		1936, in the Assemblies of God
Education
	1929	Student at University of Indiana, Bloomington (did not graduate because family could not afford tuition)
Career
	1928-1932	Assistant pastor to Rev. John Price - Indianapolis, Indiana
	1930?	Worked briefly for a printing company - Indianapolis, Indiana
	1933	Pastor - Kokomo, Indiana
	1934	Pastor - Harrodsburg, Indiana
	1934-1939	Pastor - South Bend, Indiana
	1939-1942	Pastor - Granite City, Illinois
	1943-1947	Pastor - Springfield, Missouri
	1944	Founding member of National Religious Broadcasters
	1945	Started the Radio Department of the Assemblies of God (AOG)
	1946-1949	Narrator of the AOG's radio program, Sermons in Song
	1949-1951	Secretary-Treasurer, Assemblies of God's Southern Missouri District
	1951-1952	Pastor - First Assembly of God, Cleveland, Ohio
	1952-1959	Assistant General Superintendent, Assemblies of God
	1954-1956	President, National Religious Broadcasters
	1957-1991	Member of executive board of the National Association of Evangelicals
	1959-1985	General Superintendent, Assemblies of God
	1960-1962	President, National Association of Evangelicals
	1962-1970	Member of the Medicine and Religion Committee of the American Medical Association
	1964-1965	Chairman of the board, First American Security Life Insurance Company
	1966	Delegate to the World Congress on Evangelism, held in Berlin, Germany
	1967	Chairman, planning committee of the 1967 World Pentecostal Conference (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
	1967-1991	Board of Managers, American Bible Society
	1970	Chairman of Advisory Committee for the 1970 Pentecostal World Conference (Dallas)
	1973	Chairman of Advisory Committee for the 1973 Pentecostal World Conference (Seoul, Korea)
	1974	Delegate to the International Congress on World Evangelization, held in Lausanne, Switzerland
	1976	Chairman of Advisory Committee for the 1976 Pentecostal World Conference (London, United Kingdom)
	1972-1985	President, Assemblies of God Graduate School
	1973	Served on the executive committee of the Key '73, a nationwide evangelism effort which included many Christian denominations and organizations
	1974-1981	Served on the Lausanne Continuation Committee, which in 1976 became the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization(LCWE). He was a member of the executive committee from 1975 on and various other committees, including the finance committee and the 1983 search committee for an executive secretary
	1976-1981	Chairman of the Communication Working Group of the LCWE
	1976-1985	Chairman of the board, Maranatha Retirement Complex, Springfield, Missouri
	1978-1981	Chairman of the 1981 American Festival of Evangelism, held in St. Louis, Missouri
	1979	Chairman of Advisory Committee for the 1979 Pentecostal World Conference (Vancouver, Canada)
	1982	Chairman of Advisory Committee for the 1982 Pentecostal World Conference (Nairobi, Kenya)
	1983	Protestant vice-chair of the National Committee for the Year of the Bible (United States)
	1984-1985	Member of the executive committee of the National Convocation on Evangelizing Ethnic America, which met in Houston April 15-18,1985
	1985	Chairman of Advisory Committee for the 1985 Pentecostal World Conference (Zurich, Switzerland)
	1986-1990	United States president of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
	1989	Chairman of Advisory Committee for the 1989 Pentecostal World Conference (Singapore)
Other significant information
His family had been Methodists but joined a Pentecostal church in 1917 when his mother was healed of tuberculosis after being prayed over by members of the church.
Zimmerman also served on the executive committee or board of directors of many other organizations, such as the Pentecostal Fellowship of America. He was also active in his community and was on the board of directors of the Springfield, Missouri, public television station.